The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 33

Here the Musician halted, bent a stout hazel bough down to the ground from one side of the path, and put his foot on the end of it to keep it down.

Who acts: Musician · What happens: halt, bend, put, keep down · To what, where: stout hazel bough, one side, foot, end

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 (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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 halted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Musician	det
3	Musician	Musician	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 halted	nsubj
4	halted	halt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bent	punct
6	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 halted	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bough	det
8	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bough	amod
9	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bough	compound
10	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bent	obj
11	down	down	ADV	_	14 ground	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 ground	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ground	det
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bough	nmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 side	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 side	nummod
17	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bent	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 path	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 path	det
20	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 side	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
23	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 halted	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 foot	nmod:poss
25	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 end	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 end	det
28	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 end	nmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 keep	mark
32	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 put	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 keep	obj
34	down	down	ADP	_	32 keep	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 halted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	halt	past	the Musician		here			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	bend	past	the Musician not said here	a stout hazel bough	one side of the path		to the ground result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent bough=Patient to ground=Result
3	put	past	the Musician not said here	musician's foot		on the end of path		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on end=Destination
4	keep down	to-infinitive	the Musician not said here	foot				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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