The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 13

‘That’s easily learned,’ answered the fiddler; ‘you must only do exactly as I tell you.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: learn, answer, do, tell · To what, where: That, fiddler, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	_	5 learned	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 learned	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 learned	aux:pass
4	easily	easily	ADV	_	5 learned	advmod
5	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 learned	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fiddler	det
10	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 learned	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 do	advmod
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 learned	ccomp
17	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	20 tell	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 tell	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tell	nsubj
20	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 do	ccomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	learn	present · passive		That		easily property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past		the fiddler			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fiddler=Eventuality
3	do	must	you				tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	present	I		you	exactly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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