The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 26
‘Just have a number of peas strewed over the floor of your ante-chamber,’ said the Lion, ‘and you will soon see.
Who acts: Lion, you · What happens: have, strew, say, see · To what, where: number, peas, floor, Lion · 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 have | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 number | det |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 peas | case |
| 7 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 number | nmod |
| 8 | strewed | strew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 peas | acl |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 floor | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 floor | det |
| 11 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strewed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 chamber | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ante | ante | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chamber | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 ante | punct |
| 16 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 floor | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Lion | det |
| 21 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 see | cc |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 see | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | aux |
| 27 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 see | advmod |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Lion | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | infinitive | a number of peas | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | |||||
| 2 | strew | participle | peas not said here | the floor of your ante chamber | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over floor=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see | future | you | the Lion not said here | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus |
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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