The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 31

The youth at once consented to this and entered into the King’s service, for he thought he could easily watch the foals and inform the King what they ate and drank.

Who acts: King, foals · What happens: consent, enter, think, watch, inform, eat · To what, where: youth, service, foals, 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 (King, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consented	nsubj:pass
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 consented	obl
5	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 consented	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 entered	cc
9	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consented	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	14 service	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 service	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 King	case
14	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entered	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 thought	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consented	parataxis
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 watch	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 watch	aux
21	easily	easily	ADV	_	22 watch	advmod
22	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thought	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 foals	det
24	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 watch	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 inform	cc
26	inform	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 watch	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 King	det
28	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 inform	obj
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 ate	obj
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 ate	nsubj
31	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 King	acl:relcl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 drank	cc
33	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 ate	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	consent	participle · passive		the youth			to this	tree rules
2	enter	past				the King's service		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into service=Initial_Location
3	think speech: other	past	King					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	watch	could	King	the foals			easily property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Theme
5	inform speech: other	present	King not said here		the King			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
6	eat	past	foals = foal	the King				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
7	drink	past	foals = foal not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	service		the King					nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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