The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 28

The next morning they were much astonished at finding the fiddler in bed beside them, and overwhelmed him with questions; but their friend hid his back and face, and answered them very shortly, saying, ‘Go there yourselves, and see what’s to be seen!

Who acts: musicians, friend · What happens: be, find, overwhelm, hide, answer, say · To what, where: fiddler, bed, back, musicians, yourselves · Speech: someone speaks here

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, friend), 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 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 astonished	obl:unmarked
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 astonished	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 astonished	cop
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 astonished	advmod
7	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	at	at	SCONJ	_	9 finding	mark
9	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 astonished	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fiddler	det
11	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 finding	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 bed	case
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 finding	obl
14	beside	beside	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 finding	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 overwhelmed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 overwhelmed	cc
18	overwhelmed	overwhelm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 astonished	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 overwhelmed	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 questions	case
21	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 overwhelmed	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 hid	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 hid	cc
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 friend	nmod:poss
25	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hid	nsubj
26	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 astonished	parataxis
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	26 hid	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 face	cc
30	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 back	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 answered	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 answered	cc
33	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hid	parataxis
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 answered	obj
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 shortly	advmod
36	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	33 answered	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 saying	punct
38	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 answered	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Go	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	41 Go	punct
41	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	38 saying	ccomp
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 Go	advmod
43	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 Go	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 see	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 see	cc
46	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	41 Go	conj
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	48 ’s	nsubj
48	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 see	ccomp
49	to	to	PART	_	51 seen	mark
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 seen	aux:pass
51	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 ’s	advcl
52	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	musicians = musician				morning	astonished property	tree rules
2	find	gerund	musicians = musician not said here	the fiddler		bed		beside musicians = musician	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddler=Topic
3	overwhelm	past	musicians = musician not said here	fiddler				with questions	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
4	hide	past	musicians's friend	fiddler's back and face					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient
5	answer speech: assert	past			musicians = musician			shortly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
6	say speech: assert	gerund							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	go	infinitive		yourselves		there			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yourselves=Theme
8	see	infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	see	to-infinitive · passive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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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