The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 33
Fearlessly he wandered the whole castle, and as he roamed through the splendid empty apartments he thought to himself how nice it would be to live there always, especially with a full larder and cellar at his disposal.
Who acts: fiddler · What happens: wander, roam, think, be · To what, where: whole castle, splendid empty apartments, fiddler · 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 (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 | Fearlessly | fearlessly | ADV | _ | 3 wandered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 castle | amod |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thought | cc |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 roamed | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 roamed | nsubj |
| 11 | roamed | roam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thought | advcl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 apartments | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 apartments | det |
| 14 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 apartments | amod |
| 15 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 apartments | amod |
| 16 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 roamed | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wandered | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 himself | case |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 thought | obl |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 nice | advmod |
| 22 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 live | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 nice | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 live | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 live | cop |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 live | mark |
| 27 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 thought | ccomp |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 live | advmod |
| 29 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 27 live | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 larder | punct |
| 31 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 35 larder | advmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 larder | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 larder | det |
| 34 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 larder | amod |
| 35 | larder | larder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 live | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 cellar | cc |
| 37 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 larder | conj |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 disposal | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 disposal | nmod:poss |
| 40 | disposal | disposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 larder | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | fiddler | the whole castle | fearlessly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | roam | past | fiddler | the splendid empty apartments | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through apartment=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | fiddler | fiddler | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | would | there | with a full larder at fiddler's disposal and cellar; always, live 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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