The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 38
When the King sent for his twelve huntsmen next morning they walked through the ante-room without even casting a glance at the spinning-wheels.
Who acts: King, huntsmen · What happens: send, walk, cast · To what, where: ante room, glance, spinning wheels
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), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 sent | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 walked | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 huntsmen | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 huntsmen | nmod:poss |
| 7 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 huntsmen | nummod |
| 8 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obl |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 morning | amod |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 15 | ante | ante | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 room | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ante | punct |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | obl |
| 18 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 20 casting | mark |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 casting | advmod |
| 20 | casting | cast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 walked | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 glance | det |
| 22 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 casting | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 wheels | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wheels | det |
| 25 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wheels | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 spinning | punct |
| 27 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 casting | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 | walk | past | huntsmen = huntsman | the ante room | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through room=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | cast | gerund | huntsmen = huntsman not said here | a glance | the spinning wheels | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glance=Theme at wheel=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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