The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 33

‘Because they knew they were being put to the test,’ answered the Lion; ‘and so they made an effort; but just have a dozen spinning-wheels placed in the ante-room.

Who acts: peas · What happens: know, put, answer, make, have, place · To what, where: peas, Lion, effort, dozen spinning wheels, ante room · 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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
2	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 knew	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 put	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 put	aux:pass
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 put	aux:pass
8	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 knew	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 test	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 test	det
11	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct
14	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Lion	det
16	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 answered	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
18	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 made	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 effort	det
24	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
27	just	just	ADV	_	28 have	advmod
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dozen	det
30	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 wheels	nummod
31	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wheels	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 spinning	punct
33	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 have	obj
34	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 wheels	acl
35	in	in	ADP	_	39 room	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 room	det
37	ante	ante	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 room	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 ante	punct
39	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 placed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	peas = pea					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	put	past · passive		peas = pea			to the test	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
3	answer speech: assert	past			the Lion			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lion=Eventuality
4	make	past	peas = pea	a effort				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset effort=Product
5	have	infinitive	peas = pea not said here	dozen spinning wheels				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient
6	place	participle		dozen spinning wheels not said here		the ante room		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in room=Destination

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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