--- title: ‘No,’ said the Colt, ‘I must stay here another year; kill the twelve… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘No,’ said the Colt, ‘I must stay here another year; kill the twelve little foals, and then I can suck all the mares this year also, and you shall see how big and handsome I shall be by summer.’ Who acts: Colt, I, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Colt, I, you), 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:pg540:38:3 # text = ‘No,’ said the Colt, ‘I must stay here another year; kill the twelve little foals, and then I can suck all the mares this year also, and you shall see how big and handsome I shall be by summer.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Colt Colt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 13 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 14 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 15 det _ _ 15 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 foals foal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 suck suck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 28 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 30 det:predet _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 mares mare NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 also also ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 39 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 40 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 conj _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 44 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 45 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 47 cop _ _ 46 by by ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Colt | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **stay** | must | I | | | here | year | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **kill** | infinitive | | the twelve little foals | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Theme | | 4 | **suck** | can | I | all mares | | | then; year | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mare=Source | | 5 | **see** | shall | you | big | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer big=Stimulus | | 6 | **is** | shall | I | | | | | by summer | tree rules | 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/38/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/38/4/) - ↑ back to [The Three Dwarfs, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/38/)