Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 75

And, as sure as I'm a half-starved vagabond, I smell roast meat in it."

Who acts: I · What happens: starve, be, smell · To what, where: starved vagabond, roast meat, meat

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 sure	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 sure	advmod
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 vagabond	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 vagabond	nsubj
7	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 vagabond	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 vagabond	det
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	11 starved	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 half	punct
11	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 vagabond	amod
12	vagabond	vagabond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sure	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 smell	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 smell	nsubj
15	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	conj
16	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 meat	compound
17	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 smell	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 smell	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	starve	participle				tree rules
2	is a	present	I	a starved vagabond		tree rules
3	smell	present	I	roast meat	meat	vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent meat=Theme in it=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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