The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 52

So Cinderlad told him whence he came, and that he was brother to the two who had watched the seven foals for the King, and then he inquired if he might be allowed to try to watch them on the following day.

Who acts: Cinderlad, brother · What happens: tell, come, be, watch, inquire, allow · To what, where: King, brother, seven foals, Cinderlad, 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 (Cinderlad, brother), 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	_	3 told	advmod
2	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	7 came	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brother	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 brother	cc
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 brother	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brother	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brother	cop
13	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 two	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 two	det
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 brother	nmod
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 watched	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 watched	aux
19	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 brother	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 foals	det
21	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 foals	nummod
22	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 watched	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 King	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 King	det
25	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 foals	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 inquired	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 inquired	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 inquired	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 inquired	nsubj
30	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 foals	acl:relcl
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 allowed	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 allowed	nsubj:pass
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 allowed	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 allowed	aux:pass
35	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 inquired	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 try	mark
37	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 allowed	xcomp
38	to	to	PART	_	39 watch	mark
39	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 try	xcomp
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 watch	obj
41	on	on	ADP	_	44 day	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 day	det
43	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 day	amod
44	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 watch	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Cinderlad		King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come	past	Cinderlad				whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	Cinderlad	brother			to the two	tree rules
4	watch	past · perfect	brother	the seven foals			for the King	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent foal=Location for king=Theme
5	inquire speech: other	past	Cinderlad	the seven foals not said here		then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent foal=Recipient
6	allow a condition, not said to happen	might · passive		Cinderlad				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cinderlad not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	watch not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cinderlad not said here	foals = foal		day		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
9	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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