The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 83

‘Oh! that creature!’ said the others; ‘it’s not the least use for her to come here, for she has feet like a horse!’

Who acts: creature, Kari · What happens: say, not be, come, have · To what, where: others, least use, feet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, Kari), 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	_	5 creature	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 creature	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 creature	det
5	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 creature	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 creature	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 others	det
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 use	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 use	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 use	nsubj
14	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 use	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 use	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 use	det
17	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 use	amod
18	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 use	nmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 come	mark
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 use	acl
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 come	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 has	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 has	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 has	nsubj
27	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 has	obj
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 horse	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 horse	det
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 feet	nmod
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 has	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	that creature	the others			tree rules
2	not is a	present	creature	the least use		for Kari	tree rules
3	come	to-infinitive	that creature not said here		here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	Kari	feet		like a horse	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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