The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 30

There they showed her a tiny room under the stairs, where no daylight came, and said to her, ‘Many-furred Creature, you can live and sleep here.’

Who acts: huntsmen, daylight, you · What happens: show, come, say, fur, live, sleep · To what, where: tiny room, sun, stairs, furred Creature · 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, daylight, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 showed	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 room	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	obj
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 stairs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stairs	det
10	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 room	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 came	advmod
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 daylight	det
14	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 room	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 showed	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Creature	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 Creature	punct
23	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 furred	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Many	punct
25	furred	fur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 Creature	amod
26	Creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 live	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 live	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 live	aux
30	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 Creature	acl:relcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sleep	cc
32	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 live	conj
33	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 sleep	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 showed	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	show	past	huntsmen = huntsman	a tiny room	sun	the stairs; there	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient room=Topic
2	come	past	no daylight				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	huntsmen = huntsman not said here		sun		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
4	fur	participle					tree rules
5	live	can	you	furred Creature not said here			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme creature=Location
6	sleep	infinitive	you not said here			here	vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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