The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 26
The fresh air revived him a little, and in a short time he was able to stagger with aching limbs back to the inn where his companions were staying.
Who acts: fresh air, fiddler, companions · What happens: revive, be, stagger, stay · To what, where: 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 (fresh air, fiddler, companions), 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 | 3 air | det |
| 2 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 air | amod |
| 3 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 revived | nsubj |
| 4 | revived | revive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 revived | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 revived | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 able | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 able | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 able | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 able | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 able | cop |
| 16 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 revived | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 stagger | mark |
| 18 | stagger | stagger | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 able | xcomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 limbs | case |
| 20 | aching | aching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 limbs | compound |
| 21 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stagger | obl |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 stagger | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 inn | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 inn | det |
| 25 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 back | obl |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 staying | advmod |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 companions | nmod:poss |
| 28 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 staying | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 staying | aux |
| 30 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 inn | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 revived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | revive | past | the fresh air | fiddler | a little obl:unmarked | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | fiddler | time | able property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stagger | to-infinitive | fiddler not said here | with aching limbs | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | stay | past · progressive | fiddler's companions | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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