The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 31

The creature, said he, rode on a cock as though it had been a horse, and it made lovely music, but as it certainly could not read he had just written that he would _not_ give it anything at all.

Who acts: creature, King · What happens: say, ride, be, make, not read, write · To what, where: horse, lovely music, creature · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, King), 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 creature	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rode	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rode	punct
7	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 cock	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cock	det
10	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rode	obl
11	as	as	ADV	_	7 rode	advmod
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 horse	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 horse	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 horse	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 horse	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 horse	det
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rode	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 made	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	nsubj
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
22	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 music	amod
23	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 written	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 written	cc
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 read	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 read	nsubj
28	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	31 read	advmod
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 read	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 read	advmod
31	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 written	advcl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 written	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 written	aux
34	just	just	ADV	_	35 written	advmod
35	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 made	conj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 _	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 _	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 _	aux
39	_	_	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 written	advcl
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 _	advmod
41	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 give	punct
42	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 _	ccomp
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 give	obj
44	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	42 give	obj
45	at	at	ADP	_	46 all	case
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 anything	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the creature			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ride	past	King		on a cock	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past · perfect	creature	a horse		tree rules
4	make	past	creature	lovely music		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material music=Product
5	not read	could	creature		certainly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	write	past · perfect	King			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not _	would	King			tree rules
8	give	infinitive	King not said here	creature		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient anything=Theme

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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