The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 24

The good-natured fiddler bent down to pick it up, but in the twinkling of an eye the little man had jumped on to his back, and beat him till he was black and blue all over his head and body.

Who acts: little man, good natured fiddler, fiddler · What happens: bend down, pick up, have, jump on, beat, be · To what, where: good natured fiddler, piece, eye, head, fiddler

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, good natured fiddler, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fiddler	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fiddler	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 good	punct
4	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fiddler	amod
5	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 jumped	nsubj
6	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fiddler	acl
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 bent	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pick	mark
9	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bent	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pick	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 pick	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 twinkling	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 twinkling	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 twinkling	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 twinkling	det
16	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fiddler	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 eye	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 eye	det
19	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 twinkling	nmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 eye	acl:relcl
24	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	on	on	ADV	_	24 jumped	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 back	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 back	nmod:poss
28	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 jumped	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 beat	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 beat	cc
31	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 jumped	parataxis
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 beat	obj
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 black	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 black	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 black	cop
36	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 beat	advcl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 blue	cc
38	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 black	conj
39	all	all	ADV	_	42 head	advmod
40	over	over	ADP	_	42 head	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 head	nmod:poss
42	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 jumped	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 body	cc
44	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 head	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bend down	participle		the good natured fiddler but the twinkling of a eye not said here		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pick up	to-infinitive		piece			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	have	past	the little man	a eye not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	jump on	past	the good natured fiddler but the twinkling of a eye		fiddler's head and body	to fiddler's back result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to back=Result
5	beat	infinitive		fiddler			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
6	is	past	fiddler			black property	tree rules
7	be		fiddler not said here				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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