The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 18
Here she enquired whether the King did not want some huntsmen, and if he would not take them all into his service.
Who acts: Princess, King · What happens: enquire, not want, not take, service · To what, where: huntsmen, service · Speech: someone speaks here
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, King), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 enquired | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 enquired | nsubj |
| 3 | enquired | enquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 9 want | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 want | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 want | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 want | advmod |
| 9 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 enquired | ccomp |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 huntsmen | det |
| 11 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 want | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 take | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 take | advmod |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 enquired | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 service | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 service | nmod:poss |
| 23 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 enquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enquire speech: other | past | Princess | here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not want | past · do-support | the King | some huntsmen | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot huntsman=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not take a condition, not said to happen | would | King | huntsmen = huntsman | King's service | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into service=Destination | |||
| 4 | service | King | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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