The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 31

Next morning, when the King sent for his twelve huntsmen, and they passed through the ante-room which was plentifully strewn with peas, they trod so firmly and walked with such a steady, strong step that not a single pea rolled away or even so much as stirred.

Who acts: King, huntsmen, ante room, peas, that · What happens: send, pass, be, tread, walk, not pea · To what, where: ante room, single pea

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 (King, huntsmen, ante room, 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sent	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sent	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 sent	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sent	nsubj
7	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 huntsmen	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 huntsmen	nmod:poss
10	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 huntsmen	nummod
11	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sent	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 passed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 passed	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 passed	nsubj
15	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sent	conj
16	through	through	ADP	_	20 room	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 room	det
18	ante	ante	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 room	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 ante	punct
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 passed	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 strewn	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 strewn	cop
23	plentifully	plentifully	ADV	_	24 strewn	advmod
24	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 room	acl:relcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 peas	case
26	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 strewn	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 trod	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 trod	nsubj
29	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sent	conj
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 firmly	advmod
31	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	29 trod	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 walked	cc
33	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 trod	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	40 step	case
35	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	40 step	det:predet
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 step	det
37	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 step	amod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 steady	punct
39	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 step	amod
40	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 walked	obl
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 pea	nsubj
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 pea	advmod
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 pea	det
44	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 pea	amod
45	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 step	nmod
46	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 pea	acl
47	away	away	ADV	_	46 rolled	advmod
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 much	cc
49	even	even	ADV	_	51 much	advmod
50	so	so	ADV	_	51 much	advmod
51	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 rolled	conj
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 stirred	mark
53	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 much	advcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the King			morning	for King's twelve huntsmen	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	pass	past	huntsmen = huntsman		the ante room			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through room=Location
3	is	past	the ante room				with peas; plentifully, strewn property	tree rules
4	tread	past	peas = pea				firmly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	walk	past	peas = pea not said here				with such steady strong step	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not pea		that					tree rules
7	roll away	participle		a single pea not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	stir	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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