More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 72

Then came in the old carl cat With a fiddle on his back: "Do ye any music lack?"

What happens: come, do · To what, where: ye · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 cat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cat	amod
6	carl	carl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cat	compound
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
8	With	with	ADP	_	10 fiddle	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fiddle	det
10	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 back	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 back	nmod:poss
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fiddle	nmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Do	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Do	punct
16	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
17	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 Do	obj
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 lack	det
19	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lack	compound
20	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Do	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 Do	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past					then	in the old carl cat; with a fiddle on cat's back	tree rules
2	do in a quote	infinitive		ye					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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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