The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 27

It was night when he reached the place, and the other two musicians were fast asleep.

Who acts: air, fiddler, other two musicians · What happens: be, reach · To what, where: night, place

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 (air, fiddler, other two 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 night	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 night	cop
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 reached	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reached	nsubj
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 night	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asleep	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 asleep	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 musicians	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 musicians	amod
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 musicians	nummod
14	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 asleep	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 asleep	cop
16	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 asleep	advmod
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 night	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	air	night		tree rules
2	reach	past	fiddler	the place		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	is	past	the other two musicians	night not said here	asleep, fast property	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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