The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 1
Once upon a time three musicians left their home and set out on their travels.
Who acts: three musicians · What happens: leave, set out, travel · To what, where: home
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three musicians), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 left | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 musicians | nummod |
| 6 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 left | nsubj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 home | nmod:poss |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 15 travels | mark |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 travels | nmod:poss |
| 15 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | three musicians | musicians's home | once property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | |||
| 2 | set out | past | three musicians not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | travel | present | three musicians not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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