The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 105

‘Then thou canst tell me what my seven foals eat and drink?’ asked the King.

Who acts: thou, seven foals · What happens: tell, eat, drink, ask · To what, where: me, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, seven foals), 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 tell	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tell	advmod
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 tell	nsubj
4	canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 asked	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 eat	obj
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 foals	nmod:poss
9	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 foals	nummod
10	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eat	nsubj
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drink	cc
13	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 eat	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 asked	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	thou	me	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	eat	infinitive	my seven foals			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
3	drink	infinitive	my seven foals not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past		the King		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic

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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