The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 47
‘It’s easily learnt,’ answered the Musician; ‘just do exactly as I tell you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: learn, answer, do, tell · To what, where: desire, Musician, you · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 5 learnt | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 learnt | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 learnt | aux:pass |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 learnt | advmod |
| 5 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 learnt | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Musician | det |
| 10 | Musician | musician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 do | advmod |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 learnt | parataxis |
| 15 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 18 tell | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 tell | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 learnt | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 learnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present · passive | desire | easily property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Musician | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent musician=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | present | I | you | exactly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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