The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 83

When thou hast cut off our heads, thou must take the greatest care to lay each head at the tail of the body to which it belonged before, and then the spell which the Troll has cast upon us will lose all its power.’

Who acts: thou, head, spell · What happens: cut off, take, lay, belong, cast, lose · To what, where: thou, greatest care, head, tail, spell, power

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, head, spell), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 cut	advmod
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 cut	nsubj:pass
3	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	aux
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 take	advcl
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 cut	compound:prt
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heads	nmod:poss
7	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cut	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct
9	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 take	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 take	aux
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 care	det
13	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 care	amod
14	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 lay	mark
16	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 take	advcl
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 head	det
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 tail	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tail	det
21	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 body	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 body	det
24	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tail	nmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 belonged	obl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 belonged	nsubj
28	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 body	acl:relcl
29	before	before	ADV	_	28 belonged	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 lose	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 lose	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 lose	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 spell	det
34	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lose	nsubj
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 cast	nsubj:pass
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Troll	det
37	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 cast	nsubj:pass
38	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 cast	aux
39	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 spell	acl:relcl
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	41 us	case
41	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 cast	obl
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 lose	aux
43	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 take	conj
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 power	det:predet
45	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 power	nmod:poss
46	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lose	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	present · perfect · passive		thou				tree rules
2	take	must	thou	the greatest care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	lay	to-infinitive	thou not said here	each head	the tail of the body			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme at tail=Destination
4	belong	past	head				to the body; before property	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	cast	present · perfect · passive		the spell			upon us	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme upon we=Destination
6	lose	future	the spell	Troll's power		then		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality

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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