English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 101

“Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman,” cried out the ogre; “I smell him, wife, I smell him.”

Who acts: Fee fi, ogre · What happens: fum, smell, cry out · To what, where: blood, ogre · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Fee fi, ogre), 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	_	8 fum	punct
2	Fee	fee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fi	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Fee	punct
4	fi	fi	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fum	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 fi	punct
6	fo	fo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fum	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 fum	punct
8	fum	fum	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cried	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smell	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 smell	nsubj
11	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fum	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 blood	det
13	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smell	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Englishman	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Englishman	det
16	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 blood	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smell	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 fum	punct
19	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 cried	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ogre	det
22	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cried	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 smell	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 smell	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 smell	nsubj
26	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cried	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 smell	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wife	punct
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smell	vocative
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 smell	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 smell	nsubj
32	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cried	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 smell	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 smell	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 smell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fum in a quote		Fee fi			tree rules
2	smell in a quote	present	the ogre = ogre	the blood of a Englishman		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus
3	cry out speech: express	past	the ogre			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	smell in a quote	present	the ogre = ogre	ogre	wife vocative	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	smell in a quote	present	the ogre = ogre	ogre		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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: «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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