The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 57

‘Oh, very well, if thou art absolutely determined to have thy back flayed, thou may’st have thine own way if thou wilt,’ said the King.

Who acts: own way, back, thou, King · What happens: have, flay, say · To what, where: own way · 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 (own way, back, thou, 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	_	20 have	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 well	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 have	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 well	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 art	mark
8	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 art	nsubj
9	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 have	advcl
10	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	11 determined	advmod
11	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 art	xcomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 have	mark
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 determined	xcomp
14	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 back	nmod:poss
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flayed	nsubj
16	flayed	flay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 have	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 art	punct
18	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 have	nsubj
19	may’st	may'st	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	ccomp
21	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 way	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 wilt	mark
25	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 wilt	nsubj
26	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	20 have	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 King	det
31	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 said	nsubj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	to-infinitive	thine own way not said here			tree rules
2	flay	past	thy back			tree rules
3	have		thou	thine own way	well property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	the King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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