The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 21

And the little man sat down beside the fiddler and shared his meal.

Who acts: little man · What happens: sit down, share · To what, where: fiddler, 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 (little man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 sat	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 sat	compound:prt
7	beside	beside	ADP	_	9 fiddler	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fiddler	det
9	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shared	cc
11	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 meal	nmod:poss
13	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shared	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the little man			the fiddler			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside fiddler=Location
2	share	past	the little man not said here	man's meal					tree rules

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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