The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 49

The cook was terrified when he heard the command, and said to the Many-furred Creature, ‘You must have let a hair fall into the soup, and if you have you deserve a good beating!’

Who acts: cook, King, You · What happens: be, hear, say, fur, let, fall · To what, where: command, furred Creature, You, soup, good beating · 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 (cook, King, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 terrified	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	cop
4	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 command	det
9	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	18 Creature	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Creature	det
15	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 furred	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Many	punct
17	furred	fur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 Creature	amod
18	Creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
21	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 let	nsubj:pass
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 let	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	aux
24	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hair	det
26	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 let	obj
27	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 soup	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 soup	det
30	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fall	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 deserve	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 deserve	cc
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 have	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 have	nsubj
35	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 deserve	advcl
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 deserve	nsubj
37	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 beating	det
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 beating	amod
40	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 deserve	obj
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 terrified	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cook			terrified property	tree rules
2	hear	past	King	the command			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer command=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the cook not said here		the furred Creature		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to creature=Recipient
4	fur	participle					tree rules
5	let	must · perfect · passive		You			tree rules
6	fall	infinitive	You not said here			into the soup result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into soup=Result
7	have a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	deserve	present	you	a good beating			tree rules

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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