English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 11
“Fee, fie, fo, fum, I smell the blood of some earthly one.
Who acts: dreadful voice · What happens: smell · To what, where: Fee
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreadful voice), 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 fie | punct |
| 4 | fie | fie | 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 one | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 one | det |
| 16 | earthly | earthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blood | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 smell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell in a quote | present | a dreadful voice = voice | Fee and fie and fo and fum | 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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