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title: “Snouk but and snouk ben, I find the smell of an earthly man, Be he… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Snouk but and snouk ben, I find the smell of an earthly man, Be he living, or be he dead, His heart this night shall kitchen my bread.” Who acts: Snouk, man, heart, earthly man. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 23

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“Snouk but and snouk ben, I find the smell of an earthly man, Be he living, or be he dead, His heart this night shall kitchen my bread.”

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**Who acts:** Snouk, man, heart, earthly man · **What happens:** find, be, kitchen, smell · **To what, where:** smell

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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, man, heart, earthly man), 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:pg7439:26:23
# text = “Snouk but and snouk ben, I find the smell of an earthly man, Be he living, or be he dead, His heart this night shall kitchen my bread.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Snouk	Snouk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	snouk	snouk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ben	ben	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	earthly	earthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 | man |  |  |  |  | live *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | man |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **kitchen** *in a quote* | shall | man's heart |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **smell** *in a quote* |  | a earthly man |  |  |  |  |  | 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:** «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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