The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 73

The cook said, ‘You must be a witch, Many-furred Creature, for you always put something in the soup, so that it is much better and tastes nicer to the King than any that I cook.’

Who acts: cook, You, soup, I · What happens: say, be, fur, put, taste, cook · To what, where: witch, something, 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, You, soup, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 witch	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 witch	punct
6	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 witch	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 witch	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 witch	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Creature	punct
12	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 furred	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Many	punct
14	furred	fur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 Creature	amod
15	Creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 witch	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 put	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 put	nsubj
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 put	advmod
20	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 put	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 soup	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 soup	det
24	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 better	punct
26	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	31 better	mark
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 so	fixed
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 better	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 better	cop
30	much	much	ADV	_	31 better	advmod
31	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 put	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tastes	cc
33	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 better	conj
34	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 tastes	xcomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 King	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 King	det
37	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 nicer	obl
38	than	than	ADP	_	39 any	case
39	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 nicer	obl
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 cook	obj
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 cook	nsubj
42	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 any	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the cook				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	must	You	a witch and furred Creature			tree rules
3	fur	participle					tree rules
4	put	past	you	something	the soup	always property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent something=Theme in soup=Destination
5	is	present	soup			good property	tree rules
6	taste	present	soup not said here			nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	cook	present	I				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient

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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