The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 28

‘My dear friend, how beautifully you play the fiddle; I would like to learn how you do it.’

Who acts: you, dear friend · What happens: play, like, learn, do · To what, where: fiddle · 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, dear friend), 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	_	15 like	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friend	amod
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 like	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 play	punct
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 beautifully	advmod
7	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	9 play	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 play	nsubj
9	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 friend	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fiddle	det
11	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 play	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 friend	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 like	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 like	aux
15	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 learn	mark
17	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 like	xcomp
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 do	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 do	nsubj
20	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 learn	ccomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 do	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 like	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play	present	you	the fiddle	beautifully property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Theme
2	like	would	My dear friend			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	My dear friend not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	present	you	fiddle		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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