--- title: ‘Well, then, if they do slaughter me,’ was the black sheep’s answer,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Well, then, if they do slaughter me,’ was the black sheep’s answer, ‘eat you neither the meat nor the broth that is made of me, but gather all my bones, and bury them by the edge of the field.’ A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch, with its dependency tree and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Wonderful Birch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/) / 16 # The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 16 ‘Well, then, if they do slaughter me,’ was the black sheep’s answer, ‘eat you neither the meat nor the broth that is made of me, but gather all my bones, and bury them by the edge of the field.’ **What happens:** slaughter, be, eat, make, gather, bury · **To what, where:** me, answer, you, broth, bones, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:14:16 # text = ‘Well, then, if they do slaughter me,’ was the black sheep’s answer, ‘eat you neither the meat nor the broth that is made of me, but gather all my bones, and bury them by the edge of the field.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 slaughter slaughter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 csubj _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 sheep sheep NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’s 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 nmod _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 25 cc:preconj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 28 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 broth broth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 gather gather VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 37 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 39 det:predet _ _ 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 by by ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slaughter** | present · do-support | | me | | | then | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | past | | the black sheep's answer | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** | infinitive | | you | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 4 | **make** | present · passive | | the broth | | | | of me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 5 | **gather** | infinitive | | my bones | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | | 6 | **bury** | infinitive | | man | | | | by the edge of the field | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme by edge=Destination | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/17/) - ↑ back to [The Wonderful Birch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/)