The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 8

‘He may be the cook, but he did not cook this feast,’ said the bridegroom, and then inquiry was made, and the girl was summoned to the great hall.

Who acts: kitchen, cook · What happens: be, not cook, say, make, summon · To what, where: cook, feast, bridegroom, inquiry, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kitchen, cook), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 cook	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cook	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cook	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 cook	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cook	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 cook	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cook	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cook	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 cook	advmod
12	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cook	conj
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 feast	det
14	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cook	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cook	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 cook	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bridegroom	det
19	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 made	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 inquiry	advmod
23	inquiry	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 made	aux:pass
25	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 said	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 summoned	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 summoned	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 girl	det
29	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 summoned	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 summoned	aux:pass
31	summoned	summon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 made	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 hall	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hall	det
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hall	amod
35	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 summoned	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	may	kitchen	the cook		tree rules
2	not cook	past · do-support	kitchen	this feast		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feast=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the cook	the bridegroom		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Topic
4	make	past · passive		inquiry		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
5	summon	past · passive		the girl	to the great hall	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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