The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 30

The King’s daughter thanked him for the hint, and after he was gone she said to her maidens: ‘Now make every effort to tread firmly on the peas.’

Who acts: daughter, King · What happens: thank, be, say, make, tread · To what, where: King, maidens, effort, peas · 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 (daughter, King), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 King	case
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thanked	nsubj
5	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thanked	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 hint	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hint	det
9	hint	hint	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thanked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gone	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gone	cc
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 gone	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gone	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	cop
15	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thanked	parataxis
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 maidens	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 maidens	nmod:poss
20	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 said	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 make	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 make	punct
23	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 make	advmod
24	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thanked	parataxis
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 effort	det
26	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 make	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 tread	mark
28	tread	tread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 effort	acl
29	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	28 tread	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 peas	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 peas	det
32	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tread	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 make	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the King's daughter		King			for the hint	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for hint=Attribute
2	is	past	King					gone property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	daughter		daughter's maidens				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to maiden=Recipient
4	make	present		every effort			now		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset effort=Product
5	tread	to-infinitive		every effort not said here		the peas		firmly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pea=Trajectory

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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