The Red Fairy Book, ‘master! Master!’, sentence 4

He fled like lightning with the harp, talking to it as he went (for he saw it was a fairy), and telling it he was the son of its old master, the knight.

Who acts: Jack, harp · What happens: flee, talk, go, see, be, tell · To what, where: harp, fairy, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘master! Master!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, harp), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 lightning	case
4	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fled	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 harp	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 harp	det
7	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fled	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 talking	punct
9	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fled	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 talking	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 went	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 talking	advcl
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 saw	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fairy	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fairy	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fairy	det
22	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 fairy	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 telling	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 telling	cc
26	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fled	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 telling	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 son	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 son	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 son	det
31	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 telling	ccomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 master	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 master	nmod:poss
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 master	amod
35	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 son	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 knight	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 knight	det
38	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 master	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	flee	past	Jack			like lightning; with the harp	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	gerund	Jack not said here		harp		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent
3	go	past	Jack				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	past	Jack				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	harp	a fairy			tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	gerund			fairy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
7	is a	past	Jack	the son		of harp's old master and the knight	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: «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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