The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 40

Whether it was the hen-wife instructed her, or whether it was from her own knowledge, I cannot tell; but she gave out they must go and bring her the Knight of the Glen’s wild Steed of Bells, or they should lose their heads.

Who acts: design, hen wife, I, Queen, sons · What happens: be, instruct, not tell, give out, go, bring · To what, where: hen wife, Queen, own knowledge, Knight, heads · 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 (design, hen wife, I, 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	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	7 wife	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wife	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wife	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wife	det
5	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wife	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 hen	punct
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 instructed	nsubj
8	instructed	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 instructed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 tell	cc
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	18 knowledge	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knowledge	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 knowledge	cop
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 knowledge	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 knowledge	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 knowledge	amod
18	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knowledge	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tell	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 tell	advmod
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 instructed	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 gave	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	nsubj
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 instructed	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 gave	compound:prt
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 go	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 go	aux
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 gave	ccomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bring	cc
33	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 go	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bring	obj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Knight	det
36	Knight	Knight	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 bring	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	42 Steed	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Glen	det
39	Glen	Glen	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Steed	nmod:poss
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 Glen	case
41	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Steed	amod
42	Steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Knight	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 Bells	case
44	Bells	Bell	PROPN	Number=Plur	42 Steed	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 lose	punct
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	49 lose	cc
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 lose	nsubj
48	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 lose	aux
49	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 gave	advcl
50	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 heads	nmod:poss
51	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 lose	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 instructed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	design	the hen wife			tree rules
2	instruct speech: other	past	the hen wife		Queen		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	is	past	design			Queen's own knowledge	tree rules
4	not tell speech: assert	can	I				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give out	past	Queen				tree rules
6	go	must	sons = son				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	bring	infinitive	sons = son not said here	the Knight of the Glen's wild Steed of Bells	Queen		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination knight=Theme
8	lose	should	sons = son	sons's heads			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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