The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 17
‘Now,’ said the Musician, ‘if you want to learn to fiddle, here’s your chance.
Who acts: you, your · What happens: say, want, learn, fiddle, chance · To what, where: Musician · 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, your), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Musician | det |
| 7 | Musician | musician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 want | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 want | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 want | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 want | nsubj |
| 12 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 learn | mark |
| 14 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 want | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fiddle | mark |
| 16 | fiddle | fiddle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 learn | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ’s | punct |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 ’s | advmod |
| 19 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 chance | nmod:poss |
| 21 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ’s | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Musician | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | learn not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fiddle | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | chance | your | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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