The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 64
And he began playing so enchantingly that the poor man stood there as if bewitched, and his heart leapt for joy as he listened.
Who acts: last, poor man · What happens: begin, play, stand, bewitch, listen · To what, where: heart leapt
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 (last, poor man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 began | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 began | xcomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 enchantingly | advmod |
| 6 | enchantingly | enchantingly | ADV | _ | 4 playing | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 stood | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | advcl |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 stood | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 bewitched | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 bewitched | mark |
| 15 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stood | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leapt | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 leapt | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 leapt | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leapt | compound |
| 20 | leapt | leapt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 joy | case |
| 22 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leapt | nmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 listened | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 listened | nsubj |
| 25 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | last | last's heart leapt for joy | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | play | gerund | last not said here | enchantingly property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | the poor man | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | bewitch | participle | the poor man not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | listen | past | last | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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