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title: Or perhaps you smell the scraps of that little boy you liked so much… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Or perhaps you smell the scraps of that little boy you liked so much for yesterday's dinner. Who acts: you. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 69

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Or perhaps you smell the scraps of that little boy you liked so much for yesterday's dinner.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** smell, like · **To what, where:** scraps, little boy

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:16:69
# text = Or perhaps you smell the scraps of that little boy you liked so much for yesterday's dinner.
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	smell	smell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	scraps	scrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | present | you | the scraps of that little boy |  |  |  | for yesterday's dinner; perhaps *property* | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent scrap=Location for dinner=Theme |
| 2 | **like** | past | you | that little boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boy=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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