The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 18

So when they came she gave the lad a bottle of water and a bit of moss, and told him to show these to the King and say that this was what his seven foals ate and drank.

Who acts: foals, hag, this, seven foals · What happens: come, give, tell, show, say, be · To what, where: lad, these, 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 (foals, hag, this, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lad	det
8	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bottle	det
10	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 water	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bottle	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bit	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bit	det
15	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 water	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 moss	case
17	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bit	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 show	mark
23	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 told	xcomp
24	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 show	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 King	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 King	det
27	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 show	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 say	cc
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 show	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 say	obl
31	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 what	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 what	cop
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 that	parataxis
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 foals	nmod:poss
35	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 foals	nummod
36	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 ate	nsubj
37	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 what	acl:relcl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 drank	cc
39	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 ate	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come	past	foals = foal			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	past	hag	the lad		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lad=Recipient bottle=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	foals = foal not said here		lad	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	foals = foal not said here	these	the King	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to king=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	infinitive	foals = foal not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	this			tree rules
7	eat	past	King's seven foals			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	drink	past	King's seven foals not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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