The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 17

‘Wait till it is dusk,’ said the old hag, ‘and then the King’s foals will pass by this place again, and you can run home with them; no one will ever know that you have been lying here all day instead of watching the foals.’

Who acts: hair, old hag, you, one · What happens: wait, be, say, pass, run, know · To what, where: foals · 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 (hair, old hag, you, one), 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	_	2 Wait	punct
2	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	till	till	ADP	_	6 dusk	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dusk	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dusk	cop
6	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Wait	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hag	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hag	amod
12	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pass	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ‘	punct
14	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hag	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 foals	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 foals	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 foals	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 King	case
20	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hag	conj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 pass	aux
22	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 place	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 place	det
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pass	obl
26	again	again	ADV	_	22 pass	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 run	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 run	cc
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 run	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 run	aux
31	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 pass	conj
32	home	home	ADV	_	31 run	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 run	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 know	punct
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 know	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 know	aux
39	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	40 know	advmod
40	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 lying	mark
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 lying	nsubj
43	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 lying	aux
44	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 lying	aux
45	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 know	ccomp
46	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 lying	advmod
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 day	det
48	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 lying	obl:unmarked
49	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	51 watching	mark
50	of	of	ADP	_	49 instead	fixed
51	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 lying	advcl
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 foals	det
53	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 watching	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 know	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	40 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	infinitive						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	hair			till dusk		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pass	future	the old hag and ‘ and the King's foals			again	by this place	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by place=Location
5	run	can	you				with place; home property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with they=Material
6	know	future	no one			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	lie	present · perfect · progressive	you		here	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	watch	gerund	you not said here	the foals				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Theme

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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