The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 37

At last they came to the game, and, as usual, the little man let his piece fall on the ground.

Who acts: companions, little man · What happens: come, let · To what, where: last, piece fall, ground

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 (companions, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 game	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 let	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 usual	case
12	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 let	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 usual	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 let	nsubj
17	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fall	nmod:poss
19	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fall	compound
20	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 let	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 ground	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 let	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	companions = companion			last		to the game	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to game=Initial_Location
2	let	infinitive	the little man	man's piece fall		the ground		as usual	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent fall=Theme on ground=Asset

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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