The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 21

‘Then you are able to tell me what it is that my seven foals eat and drink,’ said the King.

Who acts: you, Horse, King · What happens: be, tell, drink, say · To what, where: me · 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, Horse, King), 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 able	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 able	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 able	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 able	cop
5	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 said	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	xcomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 eat	obj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 eat	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	cop
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 eat	mark
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 foals	nmod:poss
14	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 foals	nummod
15	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eat	nsubj
16	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drink	cc
18	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 able	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 able	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you		then	able property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	is	present	Horse			eat property	tree rules
4	drink	present	Horse not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	the King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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