The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 23
So he drew out his fiddle, and fiddled away lustily.
Who acts: fiddler · What happens: draw out, fiddle away · To what, where: fiddle
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 (fiddler), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 drew | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fiddle | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fiddled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fiddled | cc |
| 9 | fiddled | fiddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 fiddled | advmod |
| 11 | lustily | lustily | ADV | _ | 9 fiddled | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw out | past | fiddler | fiddler's fiddle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fiddle away | past | fiddler not said here | away, lustily property | vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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