The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 42
So the twelve huntsmen continued to follow the King, and he grew daily fonder of them.
Who acts: twelve huntsmen, King · What happens: continue, follow, grow · To what, where: King
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 (twelve huntsmen, King), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 continued | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 huntsmen | det |
| 3 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 huntsmen | nummod |
| 4 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 continued | nsubj |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 follow | mark |
| 7 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 continued | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 follow | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grew | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 continued | conj |
| 14 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 15 fonder | advmod |
| 15 | fonder | fond | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 grew | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fonder | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the twelve huntsmen | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | the twelve huntsmen not said here | the King | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | King | fond property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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