The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 39

Then the King said once more to the Lion: ‘You have deceived me again; they _are_ men, for they never once looked at the spinning-wheels.’

Who acts: King, You, wheels · What happens: say, deceive, be, look · To what, where: more, Lion, me, _ men, wheels, spinning wheels · 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, wheels), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 said	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Lion	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Lion	det
9	Lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 deceived	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 deceived	punct
12	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 deceived	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 deceived	aux
14	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 deceived	obj
16	again	again	ADV	_	14 deceived	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 men	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 men	nsubj
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 they	punct
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 men	cop
21	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 men	amod
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 looked	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 looked	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 looked	nsubj:pass
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 once	advmod
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 looked	advmod
28	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 men	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	33 wheels	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wheels	det
31	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wheels	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 spinning	punct
33	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 looked	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 men	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 men	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the King	more	the Lion		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent more=Topic to lion=Recipient
2	deceive	present · perfect	You	me			again		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	is a	present	wheels = wheel	_ men					tree rules
4	look	participle · passive		wheels = wheel		the spinning wheels		once property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

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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