The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 13
Besides these, I want a cloak made of a thousand different kinds of skin; every animal in your kingdom must give a bit of his skin to it.’
Who acts: I, animal · What happens: want, make, give · To what, where: cloak, bit, skin
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, animal), 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 | Besides | besides | ADP | _ | 2 these | case |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 want | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 these | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cloak | det |
| 7 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | obj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cloak | acl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 kinds | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thousand | det |
| 11 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 kinds | nummod |
| 12 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kinds | amod |
| 13 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 skin | case |
| 15 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kinds | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 animal | det |
| 18 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 kingdom | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 21 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 animal | nmod |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 give | aux |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 want | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bit | det |
| 25 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 skin | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 skin | nmod:poss |
| 28 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bit | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 give | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | a cloak | besides these | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cloak=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | participle | a cloak not said here | of thousand different kinds of skin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | give | must | every animal in your kingdom | a bit of animal's skin | skin | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bit=Theme to it=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 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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