--- title: The “Fee-fi-fo-fum” formula is common to all English stories of gian… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Jack the Giant-killer., with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/24/) [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/) / [XIX. Jack the Giant-killer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/) / 24 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:69:24 # text = 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”). 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 2 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Fee fee NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 fi fi NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 fo fo NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 fum fum NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 formula formula NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 16 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 ogres ogre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 also also ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 occurs occur VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 Peele Peele PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 _ _ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 Lear Lear PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 25 punct _ _ 36 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 38 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 “ " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 Childe Childe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 Rowland Rowland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/25/) - ↑ back to [XIX. 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