The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 23

Then the Troll will come and beat thee, but thou shalt take the flask which is hanging on the wall, and anoint thyself wheresoever he has wounded thee, after which thou shalt be as well as before.

Who acts: Troll, thou, flask, lad · What happens: come, beat, take, hang, anoint, wound · To what, where: thee, flask, wall, thyself

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 (Troll, thou, flask, lad), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 come	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Troll	det
3	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 beat	cc
7	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
8	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 beat	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 take	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 take	cc
11	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 take	nsubj
12	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	13 take	aux
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flask	det
15	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 hanging	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hanging	aux
18	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 flask	acl:relcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 wall	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wall	det
21	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hanging	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 anoint	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 anoint	cc
24	anoint	anoint	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 come	parataxis
25	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	24 anoint	obj
26	wheresoever	wheresoever	ADV	_	29 wounded	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wounded	nsubj
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 wounded	aux
29	wounded	wound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 anoint	advcl
30	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 wounded	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 which	punct
32	after	after	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 anoint	advcl:relcl
34	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	40 before	nsubj
35	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	40 before	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 before	cop
37	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	40 before	cc
38	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 as	fixed
39	as	as	ADP	_	37 as	fixed
40	before	before	ADV	_	33 which	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	future	the Troll			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beat	infinitive	the Troll not said here	thee				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=Theme
3	take	shall	thou	the flask				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flask=Theme
4	hang	present · progressive	the flask		the wall			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location
5	anoint	infinitive		thyself				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thyself=Theme
6	wound	present · perfect	lad	thee			wheresoever property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer
7	is	shall	thou				before property	tree rules

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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