The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 61

During this time the Musician had once more played his fiddle, and had been more fortunate in the result.

Who acts: Musician · What happens: have, play, be · To what, where: fiddle, result

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	During	during	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Musician	det
5	Musician	Musician	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 played	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 played	advmod
9	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fiddle	nmod:poss
11	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 played	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fortunate	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fortunate	cc
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fortunate	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 fortunate	cop
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 fortunate	advmod
17	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 had	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 result	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 result	det
20	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fortunate	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Musician			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	play	past	the Musician not said here	musician's fiddle			once property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Theme
3	is	past · perfect	the Musician not said here		the result		fortunate property	tree rules

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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