The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 20

‘Now,’ she said, ‘thou shalt go into the castle, and let the Trolls beat thee one night for each of us, and if thou canst but endure that, thou wilt set us free.’

Who acts: youth, thou, Trolls · What happens: say, go, let, beat, endure, set · To what, where: castle, thee, that, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, thou, Trolls), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
9	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 go	nsubj
10	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 castle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 castle	det
14	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 let	cc
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Trolls	det
19	Trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 beat	nsubj
20	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 let	xcomp
21	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 beat	obj
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 night	nummod
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beat	obl:unmarked
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 each	case
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 beat	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 us	case
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 each	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 endure	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 endure	cc
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 canst	mark
31	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 canst	nsubj
32	canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	34 endure	aux
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 endure	cc
34	endure	endure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 endure	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 set	punct
37	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	39 set	nsubj
38	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	39 set	aux
39	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 endure	conj
40	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 set	obj
41	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 set	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	youth			now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	shall	thou		the castle			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location
3	let	infinitive	thou not said here					tree rules
4	beat	present	the Trolls	thee		night	for each	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=Theme
5	endure	can		that				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Circumstance
6	set	future	thou	us			free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient we=Result

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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