The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 27

Men have a strong, firm tread, so that if they happen to walk over peas not one will stir, but girls trip, and slip, and slide, so that the peas roll all about.’

Who acts: Men, one, girls, peas · What happens: have, happen, walk, not stir, trip, slide · To what, where: strong firm tread, peas, slip

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 (Men, one, girls, peas), 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	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tread	det
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tread	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 strong	punct
6	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tread	amod
7	tread	tread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 happen	punct
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 happen	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 happen	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 happen	nsubj
13	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 walk	mark
15	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 happen	xcomp
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 peas	case
17	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 walk	obl
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 stir	advmod
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 stir	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 stir	aux
21	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 walk	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 trip	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 trip	cc
24	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 trip	nsubj
25	trip	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 slip	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 slip	cc
28	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 trip	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 slide	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 slide	cc
31	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 trip	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 roll	punct
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 roll	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 peas	det
36	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 roll	nsubj
37	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 slide	conj
38	all	all	ADV	_	39 about	advmod
39	about	about	ADV	_	37 roll	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Men	a strong firm tread			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tread=Patient
2	happen	present	Men = man				tree rules
3	walk	to-infinitive	Men = man not said here		peas		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over pea=Trajectory
4	not stir	future	one				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	trip	present	girls	slip			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slip=Theme
6	slide	infinitive	girls not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	roll	present	the peas			about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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