Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 24

‘Oh, just let some peas be strewn in the ante-chamber,’ answered the lion, ‘and then you will soon see.

Who acts: peas, you · What happens: let, be, answer, see · To what, where: peas, ante chamber, lion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peas, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 let	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 let	advmod
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 answered	ccomp
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 peas	det
7	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 let	obj
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 strewn	cop
9	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 let	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 chamber	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 chamber	det
12	ante	ante	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chamber	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 ante	punct
14	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strewn	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
17	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lion	det
19	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 answered	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ‘	punct
21	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lion	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 see	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 see	advmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
26	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 see	advmod
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 lion	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive		some peas					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Theme
2	is	infinitive	some peas not said here			the ante chamber		strewn property	tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past			the lion and ‘				tree rules
4	see	future	you				then	soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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