The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 52
But the King said, ‘That’s not true, for it was quite different and much better soup than you have ever cooked.’
Who acts: King, That, soup · What happens: say, not be, be, cook · To what, where: you · 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 (King, That, soup), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 true | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 true | punct |
| 7 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 true | nsubj |
| 8 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 true | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 true | advmod |
| 10 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 different | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 different | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 different | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 different | cop |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 different | advmod |
| 16 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 true | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 soup | cc |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 better | advmod |
| 19 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 soup | amod |
| 20 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 different | conj |
| 21 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 25 cooked | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 cooked | aux |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 cooked | advmod |
| 25 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 true | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | That | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | soup | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cook | present · perfect · passive | you | ever | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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