English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 104
I smell the blood of an Englishman!
Who acts: I · What happens: smell · To what, where: blood
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 smell | nsubj |
| 2 | smell | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blood | det |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smell | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Englishman | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Englishman | det |
| 7 | Englishman | Englishman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 blood | nmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 smell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell | present | I | the blood of a Englishman | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=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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