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title: ‘Hutetu! what a smell of Christian blood there is here!’ said he. — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Hutetu! what a smell of Christian blood there is here!’ said he. Who acts: smell, Hutetu, Christian blood. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 68

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‘Hutetu! what a smell of Christian blood there is here!’ said he.

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**Who acts:** smell, Hutetu, Christian blood · **What happens:** be, say, smell · **To what, where:** Hutetu · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smell, Hutetu, Christian blood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:6:68
# text = ‘Hutetu! what a smell of Christian blood there is here!’ said he.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hutetu	Hutetu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a smell of Christian blood | Hutetu |  | here; there |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hutetu |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **smell** |  | Christian blood |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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