English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 67

Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he alive, or be he dead I'll have his bones to grind my bread.”

Who acts: I, fi, bones · What happens: smell, be, have, grind · To what, where: blood, bones, bread

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 (I, fi, bones), 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	Fee	fee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fi	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Fee	punct
3	fi	fi	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fum	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 fi	punct
5	fo	fo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fum	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fum	punct
7	fum	fum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 smell	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 smell	nsubj
10	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fum	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 blood	det
12	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 smell	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Englishman	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Englishman	det
15	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 blood	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 alive	punct
17	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 alive	cop
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 alive	nsubj
19	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 smell	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dead	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 dead	cc
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 dead	cop
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dead	nsubj
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 alive	parataxis
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
26	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 have	aux
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 dead	parataxis
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 bones	nmod:poss
29	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 grind	mark
31	grind	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 have	xcomp
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 bread	nmod:poss
33	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grind	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fum	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 fum	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smell	present	I	the blood of a Englishman		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus
2	is	infinitive	fi		alive property	tree rules
3	is	infinitive	fi		dead property	tree rules
4	have	future	I	fi's bones		tree rules
5	grind	to-infinitive	fi's bones not said here	my bread		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

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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