The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 55

Full of anger, he hurried after the Musician, determined when he met him to tear him to pieces.

Who acts: Full anger, musician · What happens: hurry, meet, tear · To what, where: anger, musician

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 (Full anger, 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	Full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 anger	amod
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 anger	case
3	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hurried	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 anger	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hurried	nsubj
6	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 Musician	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Musician	det
9	Musician	Musician	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hurried	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 determined	punct
11	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hurried	conj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 met	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 met	nsubj
14	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 determined	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 met	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tear	mark
17	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 met	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tear	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 pieces	case
20	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tear	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hurried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hurry	past	Full anger		after the Musician		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	musician	anger			tree rules
3	tear	to-infinitive	musician not said here	musician		to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to piece=Result

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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