The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 123
The little tailor summoned the huntsmen together, that they might see the prisoner with their own eyes.
Who acts: little tailor, huntsmen · What happens: summon, see · To what, where: huntsmen, prisoner
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little tailor, huntsmen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tailor | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tailor | amod |
| 3 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 summoned | nsubj |
| 4 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 huntsmen | det |
| 6 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 summoned | obj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 summoned | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 summoned | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prisoner | det |
| 14 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 see | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | the little tailor | the huntsmen | together property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huntsman=Recipient | |||
| 2 | see | might | huntsmen = huntsman | the prisoner | with huntsmen's own eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prisoner=Stimulus |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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