The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 25

The huntsmen went in, and then came back and said, ‘In the hollow tree there lies a wonderful animal that we don’t know, and we have never seen one like it; its skin is made of a thousand pieces of fur; but it is lying down asleep.’

Who acts: huntsmen, we, skin · What happens: go in, come back, say, lie, not know, not see · To what, where: wonderful animal, hollow tree, one, skin · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (huntsmen, we, skin), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 huntsmen	det
2	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 came	advmod
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lies	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 lies	punct
14	In	in	ADP	_	17 tree	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tree	det
16	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tree	amod
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lies	obl
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 lies	expl
19	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 animal	det
21	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 animal	amod
22	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lies	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 know	obj
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 know	aux
26	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 know	advmod
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 animal	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seen	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 seen	cc
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 seen	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 seen	aux
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 seen	advmod
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 lies	advcl
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 seen	obj
35	like	like	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 one	nmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 made	punct
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 skin	nmod:poss
39	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 made	nsubj:pass
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 made	aux:pass
41	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	parataxis
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 pieces	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 thousand	det
44	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 pieces	nummod
45	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 made	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 fur	case
47	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 pieces	nmod
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 lying	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 lying	cc
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 lying	nsubj
51	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 lying	aux
52	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
53	down	down	ADV	_	54 asleep	advmod
54	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 lying	xcomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in	past	the huntsmen					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back	past				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	lie	present		a wonderful animal	the hollow tree; there			tree rules
5	not know	present · do-support	we	a wonderful animal				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
6	not see	present · perfect	we	one			like tree	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
7	make	present · passive		tree's skin			of thousand pieces of fur	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
8	lie down	present · progressive	skin				asleep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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