The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 20

‘It will take seven herds of sheep,’ said she, ‘and their increase for seven years.’

Who acts: It, Queen · What happens: take, say · To what, where: seven herds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Queen), 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 take	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 herds	nummod
6	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 sheep	case
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 herds	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 she	punct
14	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	17 increase	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 increase	cc
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 increase	nmod:poss
17	increase	increase	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 years	case
19	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 years	nummod
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 increase	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 increase	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 increase	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	future	It	seven herds of sheep					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Queen						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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