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title: He had the cook sent to him, and again he had to confess that the Ma… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had the cook sent to him, and again he had to confess that the Many-furred Creature had cooked the soup. Who acts: King, cook. 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 70

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He had the cook sent to him, and again he had to confess that the Many-furred Creature had cooked the soup.

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**Who acts:** King, cook · **What happens:** have, send, confess, fur, cook · **To what, where:** King, furred Creature

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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 (King, 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:pg7277:42:70
# text = He had the cook sent to him, and again he had to confess that the Many-furred Creature had cooked the soup.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	confess	confess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	furred	fur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	Creature	Creature	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | past | the cook |  | King |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination |
| 3 | **have** | past | King |  |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **confess** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fur** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cook** | past · perfect · passive |  | the furred Creature |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary soup=Product |

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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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