The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 80
The Many-furred Creature now ran into the kitchen, cooked the King’s bread-soup, and when the cook had gone, she laid the gold reel in the dish.
Who acts: furred Creature, cook · What happens: fur, run, cook, go, lay · To what, where: kitchen, bread soup, gold reel, dish
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Creature | det |
| 2 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 furred | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Many | punct |
| 4 | furred | fur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Creature | amod |
| 5 | Creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 ran | advmod |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 kitchen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kitchen | det |
| 10 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cooked | punct |
| 12 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ran | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 soup | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 King | case |
| 16 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 soup | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 bread | punct |
| 18 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cooked | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gone | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gone | cc |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 gone | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cook | det |
| 23 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gone | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 gone | aux |
| 25 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 cooked | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 laid | punct |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 laid | nsubj |
| 28 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ran | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 reel | det |
| 30 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 reel | compound |
| 31 | reel | reel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 laid | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 dish | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 dish | det |
| 34 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 laid | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fur | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | run | past | the furred Creature | now | into the kitchen result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Result | |||
| 3 | cook | past | the King's bread soup | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soup=Patient | |||||
| 4 | go | past · perfect | the cook | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lay | past | cook | the gold reel | the dish | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent reel=Theme in dish=Destination |
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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