The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 36

But the good-natured servant went to the huntsmen and told them all about this fresh plot.

Who acts: good natured servant · What happens: go, tell · To what, where: huntsmen, servants · 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 (good natured servant), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 servant	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 servant	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct
5	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 servant	amod
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 huntsmen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 huntsmen	det
10	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 went	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	all	all	ADV	_	18 plot	advmod
15	about	about	ADP	_	18 plot	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 plot	det
17	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 plot	amod
18	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the good natured servant			the huntsmen			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to huntsman=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	the good natured servant not said here		servants = servant			about this fresh plot	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about plot=Topic

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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