The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 70
He had the cook sent to him, and again he had to confess that the Many-furred Creature had cooked the soup.
Who acts: King, cook · What happens: have, send, confess, fur, cook · To what, where: King, furred Creature
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, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cook | det |
| 4 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 had | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 confess | mark |
| 14 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 cooked | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Creature | det |
| 17 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 furred | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Many | punct |
| 19 | furred | fur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Creature | amod |
| 20 | Creature | Creature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 cooked | aux |
| 22 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 confess | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 soup | det |
| 24 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cooked | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | send | past | the cook | King | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | have | past | King | again | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | confess | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fur | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | cook | past · perfect · passive | the furred Creature | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary soup=Product |
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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