--- title: ‘Good,’ said the Foal; ‘and now thou must take the sword away with t… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Good,’ said the Foal; ‘and now thou must take the sword away with thee, and with it shalt thou cut off the heads of all seven of us on thy wedding-day, and then we shall become princes again as we were before. Who acts: thou, we. 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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, we), 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:pg540:49:81 # text = ‘Good,’ said the Foal; ‘and now thou must take the sword away with thee, and with it shalt thou cut off the heads of all seven of us on thy wedding-day, and then we shall become princes again as we were before. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Foal foal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ‘ PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 12 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nsubj _ _ 13 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 away away ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 24 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 26 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 27 off off ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nmod _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nmod _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 39 nmod:poss _ _ 37 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 42 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 45 advmod _ _ 43 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 46 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 xcomp _ _ 47 again again ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 48 as as SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 49 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 50 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 51 cop _ _ 51 before before ADV RB _ 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the Foal | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent foal=Topic | | 2 | **take away** | must | thou | the sword | | | now | with thee; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | | 3 | **cut off** | shall | thou | the heads of all seven of us | | | day | with door | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | | 4 | **become** | shall | we | princes | | | then; again | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is** | past | we | | | | | before *property* | 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 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/82/) - ↑ back to [The Seven Foals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/)