English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 17

His word was still: “Fie, foh and fum, I smell the blood of a British man.”

Who acts: word, Rowland · What happens: be, smell, word · To what, where: blood

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. 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 (word, Rowland), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 word	nmod:poss
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smell	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 still	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	2 word	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Fie	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 Fie	punct
7	Fie	fie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 foh	punct
9	foh	foh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Fie	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fum	cc
11	fum	fum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Fie	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 smell	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 smell	nsubj
14	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 blood	det
16	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smell	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 man	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 blood	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 smell	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 smell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			still property	tree rules
2	smell in a quote	present	Rowland's word	the blood of a British man		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus
3	word		Rowland			nom word «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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