The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 36
The Fox did as he was told, and the Musician tied his front paw to the end of one of the branches.
Who acts: Fox, Musician · What happens: do, tell, tie · To what, where: fox, front paw · 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 (Fox, 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 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | 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 | _ | 12 tied | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tied | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Musician | det |
| 11 | Musician | Musician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tied | nsubj |
| 12 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 paw | nmod:poss |
| 14 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 paw | amod |
| 15 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tied | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tied | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 end | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 branches | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 branches | det |
| 23 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | fox | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | tie | past | the Musician | musician's front paw | to the end of one of the branches | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent paw=Patient to end=Co-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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