The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 18

Before the fiddler had time to think, he was ushered into a little room by invisible hands, and there a table was spread for him with all the delicious food he had seen cooking in the kitchen.

Who acts: fiddler · What happens: have, think, usher, spread, see · To what, where: fiddler, little room, table, cooking, kitchen

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), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fiddler	det
3	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ushered	advcl
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 think	mark
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 time	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ushered	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ushered	aux:pass
11	ushered	usher	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 room	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 room	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 room	amod
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ushered	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 hands	case
17	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hands	amod
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 room	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spread	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 spread	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 spread	expl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 table	det
23	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spread	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 spread	aux:pass
25	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 ushered	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 spread	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	32 food	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 food	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 food	det
31	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 food	amod
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spread	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 seen	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 seen	aux
35	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 food	acl:relcl
36	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seen	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 kitchen	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 kitchen	det
39	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seen	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 ushered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the fiddler			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the fiddler not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	usher	past · passive		fiddler	a little room by invisible hands			vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
4	spread	past · passive		a table	there		for fiddler; with all delicious food	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with food=Theme
5	see	past · perfect	fiddler	cooking	the kitchen			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cooking=Stimulus

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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