The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 11
The fiddler was the first to set out on his adventures, and did so in the best of spirits and full of courage.
Who acts: fiddler, treasure · What happens: be, set out, do, adventure · To what, where: best, adventures
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 (fiddler, treasure), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fiddler | det |
| 2 | fiddler | fiddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 first | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 first | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 first | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 set | mark |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 first | acl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 adventures | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 11 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 set | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 did | cc |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 best | advcl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 did | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 best | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 best | det |
| 18 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 first | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 spirits | case |
| 20 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 best | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 full | cc |
| 22 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 spirits | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 courage | case |
| 24 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 full | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fiddler | the best of spirits | first property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | set out | to-infinitive | treasure's adventures | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | past | the fiddler not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | adventure | treasure | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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 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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