The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 8

‘If thou canst watch them for a whole day and tell me at night what they eat and drink, thou shalt have the Princess and half my kingdom, but if thou canst not, I will cut three red stripes on thy back.’

Who acts: thou, foals, I · What happens: watch, tell, eat, drink, have, cut · To what, where: foals, me, night, Princess, three red stripes, back · 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, foals, I), 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 watch	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 watch	mark
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 watch	nsubj
4	canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	5 watch	aux
5	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 watch	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 day	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watch	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 watch	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 night	case
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obl
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 eat	obj
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 eat	nsubj
18	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 night	acl:relcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drink	cc
20	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 eat	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
22	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 have	nsubj
23	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 watch	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Princess	det
26	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 kingdom	cc
28	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	30 kingdom	det:predet
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 kingdom	nmod:poss
30	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Princess	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 cut	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 cut	cc
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 canst	mark
34	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 canst	nsubj
35	canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	40 cut	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 canst	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 canst	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 cut	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 cut	aux
40	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 watch	conj
41	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 stripes	nummod
42	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 stripes	amod
43	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 cut	obj
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 back	case
45	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	46 back	nmod:poss
46	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cut	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 watch	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 watch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	watch	can	thou	foals = foal			day	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	thou not said here		me		night	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	eat	present	foals = foal	night				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
4	drink	present	foals = foal not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	shall	thou	the Princess and my kingdom				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
6	cut	can · future	I	three red stripes		thy back		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Product

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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