The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 67

Then the beasts were frightened, and they all three ran back into the wood, and the Musician played the woodman one of his best tunes, by way of thanks, and then continued his way.

Who acts: three, Musician · What happens: frighten, run back, play, continue · To what, where: beasts, wood, woodman, way

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 (three, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 frightened	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beasts	det
3	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 frightened	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	aux:pass
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ran	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ran	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 three	nsubj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 three	det
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 ran	nsubj
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 ran	advmod
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 wood	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ran	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 played	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 played	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Musician	det
19	Musician	Musician	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 played	nsubj
20	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woodman	det
22	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 played	obj
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 woodman	flat
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 tunes	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tunes	nmod:poss
26	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 tunes	amod
27	tunes	tune	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 one	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 way	punct
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 way	case
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 played	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 thanks	case
32	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 way	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 continued	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 continued	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 continued	advmod
36	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 played	parataxis
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 way	nmod:poss
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 continued	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		the beasts	then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	run back	past	all three			into the wood result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result
3	play	past	the Musician	the woodman		by way of thanks	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woodman=Theme
4	continue	past		musician's way	then		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent way=Theme

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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