The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 4

Instead of ropes it had wires for rigging, and musicians played on them with fiddle bows and made lovely music.

Who acts: ship, musicians · What happens: have, rig, play, make · To what, where: wires, lovely music

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, musicians), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	3 ropes	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 rigging	mark
8	rigging	rig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 had	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 played	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 played	cc
11	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 played	nsubj
12	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 played	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 bows	case
16	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bows	compound
17	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 played	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 made	cc
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 played	conj
20	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 music	amod
21	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	ship	wires	instead ropes	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=Patient
2	rig	gerund	ship not said here			tree rules
3	play	past	musicians		on wires = wire; with fiddle bows	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bow=Theme
4	make	past	musicians not said here	lovely music		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset music=Product

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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