--- title: ‘If thou canst watch them for a whole day and tell me at night what… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘If thou canst watch them for a whole day and tell me at night what they eat and drink, thou shalt have the Princess and half my kingdom, but if thou canst not, I will cut three red stripes on thy back.’ Who acts: thou, foals, I. 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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 (thou, foals, I), 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:pg540:49:8 # text = ‘If thou canst watch them for a whole day and tell me at night what they eat and drink, thou shalt have the Princess and half my kingdom, but if thou canst not, I will cut three red stripes on thy back.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ _ 4 canst can AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 obj _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 nsubj _ _ 23 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 30 det:predet _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 33 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nsubj _ _ 35 canst can AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 41 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 42 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | can | thou | foals *= foal* | | | day | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | thou *not said here* | | me | | night | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 3 | **eat** | present | foals *= foal* | night | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 4 | **drink** | present | foals *= foal* *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | shall | thou | the Princess and my kingdom | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | | 6 | **cut** | can · future | I | three red stripes | | thy back | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Product | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/9/) - ↑ back to [The Seven Foals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/)