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title: Then the cook said, ‘I must confess; _I_ did not cook the soup; the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the cook said, ‘I must confess; _I_ did not cook the soup; the Many-furred Creature did.’ Who acts: cook, I, furred Creature. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 53

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Then the cook said, ‘I must confess; \_I\_ did not cook the soup; the Many-furred Creature did.’

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**Who acts:** cook, I, furred Creature · **What happens:** say, confess, not cook, fur, do · **To what, where:** soup · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, I, furred Creature), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:42:53
# text = Then the cook said, ‘I must confess; _I_ did not cook the soup; the Many-furred Creature did.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	confess	confess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	furred	fur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	Creature	Creature	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the cook |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **confess** | must | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **cook** | past · do-support | I | the soup |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soup=Patient |
| 4 | **fur** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | past | the furred Creature |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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