The Red Fairy Book, The Talking Harp., sentence 5
‘Fe, fa, fi-fo-fum, I smell the breath of an Englishman.
Who acts: I · What happens: smell · To what, where: Fe
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Talking Harp.. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fe | punct |
| 2 | Fe | fe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 smell | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fa | punct |
| 4 | fa | fa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fe | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fum | punct |
| 6 | fi | fi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fum | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 fi | punct |
| 8 | fo | fo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fum | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 fum | punct |
| 10 | fum | fum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fe | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fe | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 smell | nsubj |
| 13 | smell | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 breath | det |
| 15 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 smell | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Englishman | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Englishman | det |
| 18 | Englishman | Englishman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 breath | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 smell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell | present | I | Fe and fa and fi fo fum | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breath=Stimulus |
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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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