The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 6
So he took his fiddle out, and fiddled till he woke the echoes round.
Who acts: musician · What happens: take out, fiddle, wake · To what, where: fiddle, echoes
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fiddle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fiddled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fiddled | cc |
| 9 | fiddled | fiddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 woke | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 woke | nsubj |
| 12 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fiddled | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 echoes | det |
| 14 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 woke | obj |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 woke | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | musician | musician's fiddle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fiddle | past | musician not said here | vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wake | past | musician | the echoes | round property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent echo=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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