English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 23

“Snouk but and snouk ben, I find the smell of an earthly man, Be he living, or be he dead, His heart this night shall kitchen my bread.”

Who acts: Snouk, man, heart, earthly man · What happens: find, be, kitchen, smell · To what, where: smell

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snouk, man, heart, earthly man), 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 Snouk	punct
2	Snouk	Snouk	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 find	nsubj
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 ben	cc
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ben	cc
5	snouk	snouk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ben	compound
6	ben	ben	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Snouk	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Snouk	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
9	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 smell	det
11	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 man	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	earthly	earthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smell	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 living	punct
17	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 living	cop
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 living	nsubj
19	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 find	advcl
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	9 find	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 kitchen	punct
26	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 heart	nmod:poss
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 kitchen	nsubj
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 night	det
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 kitchen	nsubj
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 kitchen	aux
31	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dead	conj
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 kitchen	appos
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	present	Snouk but snouk ben	the smell of a earthly man		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Topic
2	is in a quote	infinitive	man		live property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	infinitive	man		dead property	tree rules
4	kitchen in a quote	shall	man's heart			tree rules
5	smell in a quote		a earthly man			nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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