--- title: “Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of a Christian man, Be he dead,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of a Christian man, Be he dead, be he living, with my brand, I'll dash his brains from his brain-pan.” Who acts: loud voice, voice, my. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Childe Rowland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/) / 69 # English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 69 “Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of a Christian man, Be he dead, be he living, with my brand, I'll dash his brains from his brain-pan.” **Who acts:** loud voice, voice, my · **What happens:** smell, be, dash, brand · **To what, where:** Fee, brains, brain pan This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, 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 (loud voice, voice, my), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:24:69 # text = “Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of a Christian man, Be he dead, be he living, with my brand, I'll dash his brains from his brain-pan.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Fee fee NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 fi fi NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 fo fo NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 fum fum NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 smell smell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Christian Christian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 brand brand NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 dash dash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 38 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 pan pan NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smell** *in a quote* | present | a loud voice *= voice* | Fee and fi and fo and fum | | | | | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | voice | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | voice | | | | | with my brand; live *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **dash** *in a quote* | future | a loud voice *= voice* | voice's brains | | voice's brain pan | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent brain=Theme from pan=Trajectory | | 5 | **brand** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom brand «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. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/70/) - ↑ back to [Childe Rowland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/)