The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 4
One evening they came to a village where they delighted all the company with their beautiful music.
Who acts: musicians · What happens: come, delight · To what, where: village, company
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 (musicians), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 evening | nummod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 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 village | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 village | det |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 delighted | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 delighted | nsubj |
| 10 | delighted | delight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 village | acl:relcl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 company | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 company | det |
| 13 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 delighted | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 music | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 music | nmod:poss |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 music | amod |
| 17 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 delighted | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | musicians = musician | a village | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | delight | past | musicians = musician | all company | with musicians's beautiful music | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus company=Experiencer |
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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