The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 34
When they pass through you’ll see how pleased they will be, quite unlike any man.’
Who acts: peas, you · What happens: pass, see, be · 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, you), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 pass | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pass | nsubj |
| 3 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | SCONJ | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pass | advcl |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 pleased | advmod |
| 9 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 see | xcomp |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 be | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 be | aux |
| 12 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pleased | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 man | advmod |
| 15 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pass | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | peas = pea | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | future | you | unlike any man; pleased property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | be | future | peas = pea | vn exist-47.1 «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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