The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 3

‘No,’ said the Colt, ‘I must stay here another year; kill the twelve little foals, and then I can suck all the mares this year also, and you shall see how big and handsome I shall be by summer.’

Who acts: Colt, I, you · What happens: say, stay, kill, suck, see, be · To what, where: twelve little foals, mares, big · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Colt, I, you), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Colt	det
7	Colt	Colt	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stay	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 stay	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 stay	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 stay	aux
12	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 stay	advmod
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stay	obl:unmarked
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 kill	punct
17	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 foals	det
19	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 foals	nummod
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 foals	amod
21	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 kill	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 suck	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 suck	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 suck	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 suck	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 suck	aux
27	suck	suck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 kill	conj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 mares	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mares	det
30	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 suck	obj
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 year	det
32	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 suck	obl:unmarked
33	also	also	ADV	_	27 suck	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 see	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 see	cc
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 see	nsubj
37	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 see	aux
38	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
39	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 big	advmod
40	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 see	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 handsome	cc
42	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 big	conj
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 summer	nsubj
44	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 summer	aux
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 summer	cop
46	by	by	ADP	_	47 summer	case
47	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 big	parataxis
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 see	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	38 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Colt					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stay	must	I		here	year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	kill	infinitive		the twelve little foals				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Theme
4	suck	can	I	all mares		then; year		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mare=Source
5	see	shall	you	big				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer big=Stimulus
6	is	shall	I				by summer	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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