The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 2
They had all learnt music from the same master, and they determined to stick together and to seek their fortune in foreign lands.
Who acts: musicians · What happens: learn, determine, stick together, seek · To what, where: music, same master, fortune, foreign lands
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 learnt | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 learnt | aux |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 learnt | advmod |
| 4 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 learnt | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 master | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 master | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 master | amod |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 learnt | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 determined | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 determined | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 determined | nsubj |
| 13 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 learnt | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 stick | mark |
| 15 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 determined | xcomp |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 stick | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 seek | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 seek | mark |
| 19 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stick | conj |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seek | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 lands | case |
| 23 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lands | amod |
| 24 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 seek | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past · perfect | musicians = musician | music | the same master | all property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent music=Topic from master=Source | ||
| 2 | determine | past | musicians = musician | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stick together | to-infinitive | musicians = musician not said here | together property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | musicians = musician not said here | musicians's fortune | foreign lands | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme in land=Location |
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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