The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 31
‘Well, then, follow me,’ replied the Fiddler.
What happens: follow, reply · To what, where: me, Fiddler · 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: 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 | _ | 6 follow | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 follow | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 follow | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 follow | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 follow | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fiddler | det |
| 12 | Fiddler | Fiddler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | infinitive | me | then | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Fiddler | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/50/31/