English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 69

“Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of a Christian man, Be he dead, be he living, with my brand, I'll dash his brains from his brain-pan.”

Who acts: loud voice, voice, my · What happens: smell, be, dash, brand · To what, where: Fee, brains, brain pan

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loud voice, voice, my), 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 Fee	punct
2	Fee	fee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smell	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fi	punct
4	fi	fi	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fee	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fo	punct
6	fo	fo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fee	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fum	punct
8	fum	fum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fo	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fee	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	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 blood	det
13	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smell	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 man	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blood	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dead	punct
19	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 dead	cop
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dead	nsubj
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 smell	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 living	punct
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 living	cop
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 living	nsubj
25	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 smell	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brand	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 brand	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 brand	nmod:poss
29	brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 living	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dash	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 dash	nsubj
32	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 dash	aux
33	dash	dash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 smell	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 brains	nmod:poss
35	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 dash	obj
36	from	from	ADP	_	40 pan	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 pan	nmod:poss
38	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pan	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 brain	punct
40	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dash	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 smell	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 smell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	smell in a quote	present	a loud voice = voice	Fee and fi and fo and fum			vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus
2	is in a quote	infinitive	voice			dead property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	infinitive	voice			with my brand; live property	tree rules
4	dash in a quote	future	a loud voice = voice	voice's brains	voice's brain pan		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent brain=Theme from pan=Trajectory
5	brand in a quote		my				nom brand «communication transitive»: poss=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: «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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