--- title: When the Many-furred Creature came, the King asked her who she was. — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the Many-furred Creature came, the King asked her who she was. Who acts: furred Creature, King, 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/55/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Crea…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/) / 55 # The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 55 When the Many-furred Creature came, the King asked her who she was. **Who acts:** furred Creature, King, Creature · **What happens:** fur, come, ask, be · **To what, where:** Creature · **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, King, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:42:55 # text = When the Many-furred Creature came, the King asked her who she was. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 furred fur VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 Creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Int 11 ccomp _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fur** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | past | the furred Creature | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the King | | Creature | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 4 | **is a** | past | Creature | | | | | | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/56/) - ↑ back to [Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/)