The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 111
When he got there, he did what the foals had bidden him, and cut off the heads of all the seven.
Who acts: bridegroom · What happens: get, do, bid, cut off · To what, where: foals, heads
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 (bridegroom), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 did | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 bidden | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 foals | det |
| 10 | foals | foal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bidden | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bidden | aux |
| 12 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 did | ccomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bidden | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cut | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cut | cc |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 bidden | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 heads | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 heads | det |
| 19 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cut | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 seven | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 seven | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 seven | det |
| 23 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 heads | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | bridegroom | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | do | past | bridegroom | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bid | past · perfect · passive | the foals | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | cut off | participle | the heads of all seven | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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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