English Fairy Tales, XXIII. Red Ettin., sentence 3

I have reduced the adventurers from three to two, and cut down the herds and their answers.

Who acts: I, herds · What happens: reduce, cut down, answer · To what, where: adventurers, three, herds

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIII. Red Ettin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, herds), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 reduced	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reduced	aux
3	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 adventurers	det
5	adventurers	adventurer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reduced	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 three	case
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 reduced	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 two	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 three	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cut	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cut	cc
12	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 reduced	conj
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 cut	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 herds	det
15	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cut	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 answers	cc
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 answers	nmod:poss
18	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 herds	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reduced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reduce	present · perfect	I	the adventurers	three to two	vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer adventurer=Patient
2	cut down	participle	I not said here	the herds and herds's answers		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herd=Product
3	answer		herds = herd			nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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