The Red Fairy Book, The Talking Harp., sentence 20
‘Now play me a lullaby,’ roared the Giant; and the harp played a sweet lullaby, to the sound of which its master fell asleep.
Who acts: you, harp, master · What happens: play, roar, fall · To what, where: lullaby, me, Giant, sweet lullaby
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Talking Harp.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, harp, master), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 play | advmod |
| 3 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 play | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lullaby | det |
| 6 | lullaby | lullaby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 play | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 roared | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 roared | punct |
| 9 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 play | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Giant | det |
| 11 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 roared | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 played | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 played | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 harp | det |
| 15 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 played | nsubj |
| 16 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 play | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lullaby | det |
| 18 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lullaby | amod |
| 19 | lullaby | lullaby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 played | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sound | punct |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 sound | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sound | det |
| 23 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 played | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 fell | obl |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 master | nmod:poss |
| 27 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fell | nsubj |
| 28 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sound | acl:relcl |
| 29 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fell | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | imperative | you not said here | a lullaby | me | now | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary lullaby=Theme | ||
| 2 | roar | past | the Giant | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=Theme | |||||
| 3 | play | past | the harp | a sweet lullaby | to the sound | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lullaby=Theme | |||
| 4 | fall | past | harp's master | of the sound; asleep property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of which=Initial_Location |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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