English Fairy Tales, XIX. Jack the Giant-killer., sentence 24

The “Fee-fi-fo-fum” formula is common to all English stories of giants and ogres; it also occurs in Peele's play and in _King Lear_ (see note on “Childe Rowland”).

Who acts: fum formula, formula, Peele · What happens: be, occur, see, play · To what, where: play, note, Childe Rowland

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. 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 (fum formula, formula, Peele), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 formula	det
2	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 fum	punct
3	Fee	fee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fi	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Fee	punct
5	fi	fi	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fo	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 fi	punct
7	fo	fo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fum	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 fum	punct
9	fum	fum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 formula	compound
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 fum	punct
11	formula	formula	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 common	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 common	cop
13	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 stories	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 stories	det
16	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stories	amod
17	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 common	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 giants	case
19	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stories	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ogres	cc
21	ogres	ogre	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 giants	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 occurs	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 occurs	nsubj
24	also	also	ADV	_	25 occurs	advmod
25	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 common	parataxis
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 play	case
27	Peele	Peele	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 play	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 Peele	case
29	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 occurs	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 Lear	cc
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 Lear	case
32	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 King	compound
33	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Lear	compound
34	Lear	Lear	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 play	conj
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 occurs	punct
36	(	(	PUNCT	_	37 see	punct
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 occurs	conj
38	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 see	obj
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 Rowland	case
40	“	"	PUNCT	_	42 Rowland	punct
41	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Rowland	compound
42	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 see	obl
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	42 Rowland	punct
44	)	)	PUNCT	_	42 Rowland	punct
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 common	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the fum formula			to all English stories of giants and ogres; common property	tree rules
2	occur	present	formula		Peele's play and King Lear		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in play=Location
3	see	infinitive	formula not said here	note	Childe Rowland		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus
4	play		Peele				nom play «communication intransitive»: 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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