The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 62
After a time there was another feast, and the Many-furred Creature begged the cook as at the last one to let her go and look on.
Who acts: furred Creature, cook · What happens: be, fur, beg, let, go, look on · To what, where: feast, cook
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 (furred Creature, cook), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feast | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 feast | cop |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 feast | det |
| 7 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 begged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 begged | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Creature | det |
| 11 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 furred | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Many | punct |
| 13 | furred | fur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Creature | amod |
| 14 | Creature | Creature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 begged | nsubj |
| 15 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 feast | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cook | det |
| 17 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 begged | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 one | amod |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 begged | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 let | mark |
| 24 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 begged | advcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 let | obj |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 let | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 look | cc |
| 28 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 go | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 look | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 feast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | another feast | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fur | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | the furred Creature | the cook | as the last one | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient | |||
| 4 | let | to-infinitive | the furred Creature not said here | cook | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | cook not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | look on | infinitive | cook not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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