The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 35
He cared for nothing but the music, and nodded his head as he declared, ‘That’s something like playing and singing.
Who acts: player · What happens: care, nod, declare, play, sing · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (player), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cared | nsubj |
| 2 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 nothing | case |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 cared | obl |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 music | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 music | det |
| 7 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nodded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 nodded | cc |
| 10 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cared | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nodded | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 declared | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 declared | nsubj |
| 15 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 nodded | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ’s | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 ’s | punct |
| 18 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 ’s | nsubj |
| 19 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 declared | conj |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 ’s | obj |
| 21 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 22 playing | mark |
| 22 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 something | acl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 singing | cc |
| 24 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 playing | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | past | player | for nothing | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for nothing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | nod | past | player not said here | player's head | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | player | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | play | gerund | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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