The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 19

The youth first seized his fiddle and played a beautiful air on it which echoed through the silent halls, and then he fell to and began to eat a hearty meal.

Who acts: youth · What happens: seize, play, echo, fall, begin, eat · To what, where: fiddle, beautiful air, air, silent halls, hearty meal

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 (youth), 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 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 seized	advmod
4	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fiddle	nmod:poss
6	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 played	cc
8	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 air	det
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 air	amod
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 played	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 played	obl
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 echoed	nsubj
15	echoed	echo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 played	conj
16	through	through	ADP	_	19 halls	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 halls	det
18	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 halls	amod
19	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 echoed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 fell	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fell	nsubj
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	24 fell	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 began	cc
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fell	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 eat	mark
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 began	xcomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 meal	det
31	hearty	hearty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 meal	compound
32	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eat	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the youth	youth's fiddle			first property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Theme
2	play	past	the youth not said here	a beautiful air	air			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
3	echo	past			the silent halls			vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hall=Location
4	fall	past	youth			then		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin	past	youth not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	eat	to-infinitive	youth not said here	a hearty meal				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient

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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