The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 68

‘Hutetu! what a smell of Christian blood there is here!’ said he.

Who acts: smell, Hutetu, Christian blood · What happens: be, say, smell · To what, where: Hutetu · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smell, Hutetu, Christian blood), 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 Hutetu	punct
2	Hutetu	Hutetu	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hutetu	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 is	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 smell	det
6	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 is	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 blood	case
8	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 blood	amod
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smell	nmod
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 is	expl
11	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Hutetu	acl:relcl
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 is	advmod
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hutetu	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hutetu	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	present	a smell of Christian blood	Hutetu	here; there	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Hutetu			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	smell		Christian blood			nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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