The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 16

Then the Princess desired twelve complete huntsmen’s suits to be made, all exactly alike, and the eleven maidens had to dress themselves in eleven of the suits, while she herself put on the twelfth.

Who acts: Princess, eleven maidens · What happens: desire, make, have, dress, put · To what, where: suits, maidens, eleven, twelfth

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (Princess, eleven maidens), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 desired	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 desired	nsubj
4	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 huntsmen	nummod
6	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 huntsmen	amod
7	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 suits	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 huntsmen	case
9	suits	suit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 desired	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 made	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 made	aux:pass
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 desired	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 alike	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 alike	nsubj
15	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	16 alike	advmod
16	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 made	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 maidens	det
20	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 maidens	nummod
21	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 desired	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 dress	mark
24	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 had	xcomp
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 dress	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 eleven	case
27	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 dress	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 suits	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 suits	det
30	suits	suit	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 eleven	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 put	punct
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	35 put	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 put	nsubj
34	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 she	conj
35	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 had	conj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 twelfth	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 twelfth	det
38	twelfth	twelfth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 put	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 desired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	desire	past	the Princess	twelve complete huntsmen's suits		then	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot suit=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive · passive	the Princess not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
3	have	past	the eleven maidens				tree rules
4	dress	to-infinitive	the eleven maidens not said here	maidens = maiden	eleven of the suits		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
5	put	participle	Princess		the twelfth		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on twelfth=Destination

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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