The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 32

After they were gone the King said to the Lion: ‘There now--you have been telling lies--you see yourself they walk like men.’

Who acts: King, you, peas · What happens: go, say, tell, see, walk · To what, where: peas, Lion, lies, yourself · 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 (King, you, 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux:pass
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Lion	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Lion	det
10	Lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 telling	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 telling	punct
13	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 telling	expl
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 telling	advmod
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 telling	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 telling	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 telling	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 telling	aux
19	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	parataxis
20	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 telling	obj
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
23	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 telling	parataxis
24	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 see	obj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 walk	nsubj
26	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 see	conj
27	like	like	ADP	_	28 men	case
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 walk	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 telling	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 telling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · passive		peas = pea					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the King		the Lion				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lion=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · progressive	you	lies		there	now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient
4	see	present	you	yourself					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus
5	walk	present	peas = pea					like men	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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