The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 63

He answered, ‘Yes, but come back again in half-an-hour and cook the King the bread-soup that he likes so much.’

Who acts: King, bread soup · What happens: answer, come back, cook, like · To what, where: bread soup, King · 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, bread 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
5	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 come	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 come	cc
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 answered	ccomp
9	back	back	ADV	_	10 again	advmod
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	16 hour	case
12	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	16 hour	nsubj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 hour	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hour	det
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 an	punct
16	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cook	cc
18	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 King	det
20	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 cook	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 soup	det
22	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 soup	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 bread	punct
24	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cook	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 likes	nsubj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 likes	nsubj
27	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 soup	acl:relcl
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADV	_	27 likes	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	King				tree rules
2	come back	infinitive				again; hour	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cook	infinitive		the bread soup	the King		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent king=Beneficiary soup=Product
4	like	present	the bread soup				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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