The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 71

Then the Many-furred Creature came before the King, but she said again that she was of no use except to have boots thrown at her head, and that she knew nothing at all of the golden spinning-wheel.

Who acts: furred Creature, Creature · What happens: fur, come, say, be, have, throw · To what, where: boots, head, nothing, all · 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 (furred Creature, 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	7 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Creature	det
3	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 furred	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Many	punct
5	furred	fur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Creature	amod
6	Creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 King	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 said	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 use	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 use	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 use	cop
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 use	case
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 use	det
21	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
22	except	except	ADP	_	24 have	mark
23	to	to	PART	_	24 have	mark
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 use	csubj
25	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 have	obj
26	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 boots	acl
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 head	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 thrown	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 knew	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 knew	cc
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 knew	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 knew	nsubj
34	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	parataxis
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 knew	obj
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 all	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 knew	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	43 wheel	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 wheel	det
40	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 wheel	amod
41	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 wheel	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 spinning	punct
43	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 all	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fur	participle						tree rules
2	come	past	the furred Creature			before the King; then		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before king=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	Creature			again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Creature				of no use	tree rules
5	have	to-infinitive		boots				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Patient
6	throw	participle		boots not said here	Creature's head			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at head=Destination
7	know	past	Creature	nothing	all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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