The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 3
They wandered merrily from place to place and made quite a good living, and were much appreciated by everyone who heard them play.
Who acts: musicians, everyone · What happens: wander, make, appreciate, hear, play · To what, where: place, good living, musicians
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, everyone), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 2 wandered | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wandered | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wandered | conj |
| 10 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 living | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 living | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 living | amod |
| 13 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 appreciated | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 appreciated | cc |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 appreciated | aux:pass |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 appreciated | advmod |
| 18 | appreciated | appreciate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wandered | parataxis |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 everyone | case |
| 20 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 appreciated | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 heard | obj |
| 24 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 heard | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | musicians = musician | place to place | merrily property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from place=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | make | past | musicians = musician not said here | quite good living | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product | ||||
| 3 | appreciate | past · passive | everyone | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | hear | past | musicians = musician | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | play | infinitive | musicians = musician not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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