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title: When the King sent for his twelve huntsmen next morning they walked… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 38

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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.

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**Who acts:** King, huntsmen · **What happens:** send, walk, cast · **To what, where:** ante room, glance, spinning wheels

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:43:38
# text = 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.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	ante	ante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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