The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 19

The Wolf did as he was told, and the Musician quickly seized a stone, and wedged both his fore paws so firmly into the crack that he was held there, a fast prisoner.

Who acts: Wolf, Musician · What happens: do, tell, seize, wedge, hold · To what, where: musician, stone, fore paws, crack · 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 (Wolf, Musician), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 told	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux:pass
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seized	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seized	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Musician	det
11	Musician	Musician	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 seized	nsubj
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	13 seized	advmod
13	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stone	det
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seized	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wedged	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wedged	cc
18	wedged	wedge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
19	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	22 paws	det:predet
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 paws	nmod:poss
21	fore	fore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 paws	amod
22	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wedged	obj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 firmly	advmod
24	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	18 wedged	advmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 crack	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 crack	det
27	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wedged	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 held	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 held	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 held	aux:pass
31	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 wedged	advcl
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 held	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 prisoner	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 prisoner	det
35	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 prisoner	amod
36	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 held	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the Wolf				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		musician			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	seize	past	the Musician	a stone		quickly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
4	wedge	past		musician's fore paws	the crack	firmly property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme into crack=Destination
5	hold	past · passive		musician	there		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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