The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 22
One evening the Lion said to the King: ‘So you think you have got twelve huntsmen, do you?’
Who acts: Lion, you · What happens: say, think, get, do · To what, where: King, twelve huntsmen, you · 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 (Lion, you), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 evening | nummod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lion | det |
| 4 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 11 | So | so | ADV | _ | 13 think | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | aux |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 think | ccomp |
| 17 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 huntsmen | nummod |
| 18 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 got | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | advcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 do | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Lion | the King | evening | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | present · perfect | you | twelve huntsmen | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer huntsman=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | do | present | you not said here | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
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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