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title: After a time there was another feast, and the Many-furred Creature b… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After a time there was another feast, and the Many-furred Creature begged the cook as at the last one to let her go and look on. Who acts: furred Creature, cook. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 62

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After a time there was another feast, and the Many-furred Creature begged the cook as at the last one to let her go and look on.

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**Who acts:** furred Creature, cook · **What happens:** be, fur, beg, let, go, look on · **To what, where:** feast, cook

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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 (furred Creature, cook), 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:pg7277:42:62
# text = After a time there was another feast, and the Many-furred Creature begged the cook as at the last one to let her go and look on.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	furred	fur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	Creature	Creature	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | another feast |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fur** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the furred Creature | the cook |  |  |  | as the last one | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient |
| 4 | **let** | to-infinitive | the furred Creature *not said here* | cook |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | cook *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **look on** | infinitive | cook *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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