The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 38

The flute-player was good-naturedly just going to pick it up, when he perceived that the little dwarf was in the act of springing on his back.

Who acts: flute player, man, little dwarf, act · What happens: go, pick up, perceive, be, spring · To what, where: player, act, back

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 (flute player, man, little dwarf, act), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 player	det
2	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 player	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 flute	punct
4	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 going	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 naturedly	punct
8	naturedly	naturedly	ADV	_	10 going	advmod
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 going	advmod
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 pick	mark
12	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 going	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pick	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 pick	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 perceived	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 perceived	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 perceived	nsubj
18	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 act	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dwarf	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dwarf	amod
22	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 act	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 act	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 act	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 act	det
26	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 perceived	advcl
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 springing	mark
28	springing	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 act	acl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 back	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 back	nmod:poss
31	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 springing	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	the flute player			naturedly property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pick up	to-infinitive	the flute player not said here	player			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	perceive	past	man				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	the little dwarf		the act		tree rules
5	spring	gerund	the act not said here		man's back		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory

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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