The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 16

‘Well, then, if they do slaughter me,’ was the black sheep’s answer, ‘eat you neither the meat nor the broth that is made of me, but gather all my bones, and bury them by the edge of the field.’

What happens: slaughter, be, eat, make, gather, bury · To what, where: me, answer, you, broth, bones, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 slaughter	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 slaughter	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 slaughter	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 do	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 slaughter	aux
9	slaughter	slaughter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 answer	csubj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 slaughter	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slaughter	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 slaughter	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 answer	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sheep	det
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sheep	amod
16	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 answer	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 sheep	case
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eat	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 eat	punct
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 answer	nmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 eat	obj
23	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	25 meat	cc:preconj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 meat	det
25	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 you	nmod
26	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	28 broth	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 broth	det
28	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 meat	conj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 made	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 made	aux:pass
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 broth	acl:relcl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 made	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 gather	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 gather	cc
36	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 eat	conj
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 bones	det:predet
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 bones	nmod:poss
39	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 gather	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 bury	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 bury	cc
42	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 eat	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 bury	obj
44	by	by	ADP	_	46 edge	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 edge	det
46	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bury	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 field	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 field	det
49	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 edge	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 answer	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	slaughter	present · do-support	me	then		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	be speech: assert	past	the black sheep's answer			tree rules
3	eat	infinitive	you			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
4	make	present · passive	the broth		of me	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
5	gather	infinitive	my bones			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
6	bury	infinitive	man		by the edge of the field	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme by edge=Destination

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: «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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