The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 20

So they became the twelve royal huntsmen.

Who acts: huntsmen · What happens: become · To what, where: twelve royal huntsmen

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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	3 became	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 huntsmen	det
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 huntsmen	nummod
6	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 huntsmen	amod
7	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 became	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	huntsmen = huntsman	the twelve royal huntsmen					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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