The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 107
‘Here may you behold their meat, and here their drink,’ said he.
Who acts: you, Cinderlad · What happens: behold, say · To what, where: meat · 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 (you, Cinderlad), 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 behold | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 behold | advmod |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 behold | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 behold | nsubj |
| 5 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 meat | nmod:poss |
| 7 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 behold | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drink | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drink | cc |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 drink | advmod |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 drink | nmod:poss |
| 12 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meat | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 behold | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 behold | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | may | you | bread's meat and bread's drink | here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meat=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Cinderlad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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