The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 51
‘Now, my merry little friend,’ said the Musician, ‘run twenty times round the tree.’
Who acts: merry little friend · What happens: say, run · To what, where: Musician, tree · 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 (merry little 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 | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 friend | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 friend | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 friend | amod |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Musician | det |
| 12 | Musician | musician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 times | nummod |
| 17 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 run | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | round | round | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 run | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my merry little friend | the Musician | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | infinitive | the tree | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round tree=Trajectory |
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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