The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 19

The King saw her but did not recognize her, and as he thought them very good-looking young people, he said, ‘Yes, he would gladly engage them all.’

Who acts: King · What happens: see, not recognize, think, look, say, engage · To what, where: Princess, huntsmen, young people · 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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 recognize	cc
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 recognize	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 recognize	advmod
8	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 recognize	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 thought	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 thought	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thought	obj
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 good	advmod
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thought	xcomp
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 good	punct
19	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 thought	advcl
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 people	amod
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 looking	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 engage	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 engage	punct
27	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	32 engage	discourse
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Yes	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 engage	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 engage	aux
31	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	32 engage	advmod
32	engage	engage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 engage	obj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 them	nmod:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 engage	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 engage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the King	Princess		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	not recognize	past · do-support	the King not said here	Princess		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	think speech: other	past	King	huntsmen = huntsman	good property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
4	look	gerund	King not said here	young people		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme people=Attribute
5	say speech: assert	past	King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	engage	would	King	huntsmen = huntsman	gladly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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