The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 35

Then the little man with the beard entered as before and seated himself beside the flute-player, who wasn’t the least startled at his appearance, but chatted away to him as if he had known him all his life.

Who acts: little man · What happens: enter, seat, not startle, chat away, know · To what, where: man, flute player, appearance, fiddler

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 (little man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 entered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 entered	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 beard	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beard	det
7	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod
8	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 before	case
10	before	before	ADV	_	8 entered	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seated	cc
12	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 entered	conj
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 seated	obj
14	beside	beside	ADP	_	18 player	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 player	det
16	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 player	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 flute	punct
18	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seated	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 startled	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 startled	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 startled	aux:pass
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 startled	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 startled	det
24	least	least	ADV	Degree=Sup	25 startled	advmod
25	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 player	acl:relcl
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 appearance	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 appearance	nmod:poss
28	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 startled	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 chatted	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 chatted	cc
31	chatted	chat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 entered	conj
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 chatted	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 chatted	obl
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 known	mark
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 known	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 known	nsubj:pass
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 known	aux
39	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 chatted	advcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 known	obj
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 life	det:predet
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 life	nmod:poss
43	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 known	obl:unmarked
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	the little man with the beard				then	before property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seat	past	the little man with the beard not said here	man		the flute player			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
3	not startle	past · passive		the flute player		fiddler's appearance		least property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	chat away speech: other	past	the little man with the beard not said here		fiddler			away property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	know	past · perfect · passive		fiddler				fiddler's life obl:unmarked	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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