The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 81

‘Good,’ said the Foal; ‘and now thou must take the sword away with thee, and with it shalt thou cut off the heads of all seven of us on thy wedding-day, and then we shall become princes again as we were before.

Who acts: thou, we · What happens: say, take away, cut off, become, be · To what, where: Foal, sword, heads, princes · 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, we), 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	_	2 Good	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Foal	det
7	Foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
9	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 take	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 take	advmod
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 take	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 take	aux
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sword	det
16	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
17	away	away	ADV	_	14 take	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 thee	case
19	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 take	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cut	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cut	cc
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 cut	obl
24	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	26 cut	aux
25	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 cut	nsubj
26	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 take	advcl
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 cut	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 heads	det
29	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 cut	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 seven	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 seven	det
32	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 heads	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 us	case
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 seven	nmod
35	on	on	ADP	_	39 day	case
36	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	39 day	nmod:poss
37	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 day	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 wedding	punct
39	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cut	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 become	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 become	cc
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 become	advmod
43	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 become	nsubj
44	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 become	aux
45	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 take	advcl
46	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 become	xcomp
47	again	again	ADV	_	45 become	advmod
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 before	mark
49	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 before	nsubj
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 before	cop
51	before	before	ADV	_	47 again	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the Foal			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent foal=Topic
2	take away	must	thou	the sword	now	with thee; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
3	cut off	shall	thou	the heads of all seven of us	day	with door	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
4	become	shall	we	princes	then; again		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	we			before property	tree rules

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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