The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 63

‘At last I’ve got a proper sort of companion,’ said the Musician, ‘for it was a human being I wanted all along, and not a wild animal.’

Who acts: I, last, sort · What happens: have, get, say, be, sort · To what, where: proper sort, Musician, companion · 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 (I, last, sort), 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	_	6 got	punct
2	At	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 got	nsubj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ’ve	nsubj
5	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 last	acl:relcl
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sort	det
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sort	amod
9	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 companion	case
11	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sort	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Musician	det
16	Musician	musician	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wanted	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 wanted	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 human	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 human	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 human	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 human	det
23	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wanted	advcl
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 wanted	cop
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 wanted	nsubj
26	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
27	all	all	ADV	_	28 along	advmod
28	along	along	ADV	_	26 wanted	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 animal	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 animal	cc
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 animal	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 animal	det
33	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 animal	amod
34	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 animal	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 animal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	get	past	last	a proper sort of companion		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past		the Musician		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent musician=Topic
4	is	past	sort		human property	tree rules
5	is	gerund	I		along, want property	tree rules
6	sort			companion		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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