The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 7
‘Wilt thou serve me, and watch my seven foals?’ asked the King.
Who acts: thou · What happens: serve, watch, ask · To what, where: me, seven 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 (thou), 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 | _ | 4 serve | punct |
| 2 | Wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 serve | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 serve | nsubj |
| 4 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 serve | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 watch | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 watch | cc |
| 8 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 serve | conj |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 foals | nmod:poss |
| 10 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 foals | nummod |
| 11 | foals | foal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 watch | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 serve | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 serve | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | future | thou | me | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | watch | infinitive | thou not said here | my seven foals | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient 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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