The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 28
Then they said to her, ‘Many-furred Creature, you can work in the kitchen; come with us and sweep the ashes together.’
Who acts: huntsmen, you · What happens: say, fur, work, come, sweep · To what, where: furred Creature, sun, ashes · 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, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Creature | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Creature | punct |
| 8 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 furred | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Many | punct |
| 10 | furred | fur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Creature | amod |
| 11 | Creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 work | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 work | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 work | aux |
| 15 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 kitchen | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kitchen | det |
| 18 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 work | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 come | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sweep | cc |
| 24 | sweep | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ashes | det |
| 26 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sweep | obj |
| 27 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 sweep | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | huntsmen = huntsman | furred Creature | sun | then | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | fur | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | work | can | you | in the kitchen | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | with us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sweep | infinitive | the ashes | together property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ash=Trajectory |
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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