The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 68
Tiidu played a couple more tunes by way of thanks, then turned to go home, hearing on all sides murmurs of “What a wonderful piper!
Who acts: Tiidu · What happens: play, turn, go, hear, murmur · To what, where: more tunes, murmurs, sides, wonderful piper
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu), 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 | Tiidu | Tiidu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 played | nsubj |
| 2 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 couple | det |
| 4 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tunes | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 tunes | amod |
| 6 | tunes | tune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 played | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 played | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 thanks | case |
| 10 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 way | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 turned | advmod |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 played | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 turned | xcomp |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hearing | punct |
| 18 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 turned | advcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 sides | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 sides | det |
| 21 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hearing | obl |
| 22 | murmurs | murmur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hearing | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 piper | case |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 piper | punct |
| 25 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 28 piper | det:predet |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 piper | det |
| 27 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 piper | amod |
| 28 | piper | piper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 murmurs | nmod |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | Tiidu | more tunes a couple | by way of thanks | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme | |||
| 2 | turn | past | Tiidu not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Tiidu not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hear | gerund | Tiidu not said here | murmurs of what wonderful piper | all sides | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer murmur=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | murmur | what wonderful piper | nom murmur «event transitive»: of=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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