The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 57
‘Brother Wolf, come to my rescue, the Musician has deceived me too.’
Who acts: Brother, Musician, my · What happens: come, deceive, rescue · To what, where: rescue, me
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 (Brother, Musician, my), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Brother | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 rescue | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 rescue | nmod:poss |
| 8 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 deceived | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Musician | det |
| 11 | Musician | Musician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 deceived | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 deceived | aux |
| 13 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 come | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 deceived | obj |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 deceived | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | Brother | my rescue | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | deceive | present · perfect | the Musician | me | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rescue | my | nom rescue «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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