English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 51
“Snouk but and snouk ben, I find the smell of an earthly man; Be he living, or be he dead, His heart shall be kitchen to my bread.”
Who acts: Snouk, monster, heart, earthly man · What happens: find, be, smell · To what, where: smell, kitchen
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, monster, 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 | _ | 30 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 | 30 kitchen | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 kitchen | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 kitchen | cop |
| 30 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 bread | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 bread | nmod:poss |
| 33 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 kitchen | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 kitchen | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 kitchen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 | monster | live property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | monster | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | shall | monster's heart | kitchen | to my bread | 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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