The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 24
‘There you are mistaken,’ said the Lion; ‘they are twelve maidens.’
Who acts: Lion, huntsmen · What happens: say, be · To what, where: twelve maidens · 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, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 mistaken | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 mistaken | expl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 mistaken | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mistaken | aux:pass |
| 5 | mistaken | mistaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mistaken | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 mistaken | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lion | det |
| 10 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 maidens | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 maidens | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 maidens | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 maidens | cop |
| 15 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 maidens | nummod |
| 16 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 maidens | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 maidens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | huntsmen = huntsman | twelve maidens | tree rules |
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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