--- title: The cook said, ‘You must be a witch, Many-furred Creature, for you a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The cook said, ‘You must be a witch, Many-furred Creature, for you always put something in the soup, so that it is much better and tastes nicer to the King than any that I cook.’ Who acts: cook, You, soup, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, You, soup, I), 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:pg7277:42:73 # text = The cook said, ‘You must be a witch, Many-furred Creature, for you always put something in the soup, so that it is much better and tastes nicer to the King than any that I cook.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 5 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 7 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 furred fur VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 Creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 20 advmod _ _ 20 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 31 mark _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 fixed _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 much much ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 parataxis _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 tastes taste VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 34 nicer nice ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 xcomp _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 than than ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 34 obl _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 obj _ _ 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 cook cook VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the cook | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | must | You | a witch and furred Creature | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fur** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **put** | past | you | something | | the soup | | always *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent something=Theme in soup=Destination | | 5 | **is** | present | soup | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **taste** | present | soup *not said here* | | | | | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **cook** | present | I | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient | 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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/74/) - ↑ back to [Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/)