The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 34
A table was spread for him too, and when he had wandered about for some time, singing and playing the flute, he sat down as his companions had done, prepared to enjoy the delicious food that was spread out in front of him.
Who acts: fiddler · What happens: spread, wander, sing, play, sit down, do · To what, where: table, flute, companions, delicious food, front
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 table | det |
| 2 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | aux:pass |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spread | obl |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 spread | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wandered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wandered | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 wandered | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wandered | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wandered | aux |
| 13 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 spread | conj |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 wandered | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wandered | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 singing | punct |
| 19 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 wandered | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 playing | cc |
| 21 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 singing | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 flute | det |
| 23 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 playing | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sat | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sat | nsubj |
| 26 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | parataxis |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 sat | compound:prt |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 done | mark |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 companions | nmod:poss |
| 30 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 done | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 done | aux |
| 32 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 sat | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 prepared | punct |
| 34 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 done | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 enjoy | mark |
| 36 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 prepared | xcomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 food | det |
| 38 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 food | amod |
| 39 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 enjoy | obj |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 spread | aux:pass |
| 42 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 food | acl:relcl |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 spread | compound:prt |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 front | case |
| 45 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 spread | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 him | case |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 front | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past · passive | a table | for fiddler | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wander | past · perfect | fiddler | time | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | fiddler not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | play | gerund | fiddler not said here | the flute | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sit down | past | fiddler | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | do | past · perfect · passive | fiddler's companions | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | prepare | participle | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 8 | enjoy not said to happen | to-infinitive | the delicious food | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | spread out | past · passive | the delicious food | front of fiddler | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in front=Destination |
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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