The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 53
Then the cook said, ‘I must confess; _I_ did not cook the soup; the Many-furred Creature did.’
Who acts: cook, I, furred Creature · What happens: say, confess, not cook, fur, do · To what, where: soup · 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, I, furred Creature), 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 | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cook | det |
| 3 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 confess | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 confess | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 confess | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 confess | aux |
| 9 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 cook | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 cook | nsubj |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 cook | punct |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cook | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 cook | advmod |
| 16 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 soup | det |
| 18 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cook | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 did | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Creature | det |
| 21 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 furred | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Many | punct |
| 23 | furred | fur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 Creature | amod |
| 24 | Creature | Creature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 did | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 did | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the cook | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | confess | must | I | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not cook | past · do-support | I | the soup | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soup=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fur | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | do | past | the furred Creature | vn act-114-1 «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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