The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 41
He whined and sobbed out: ‘Give, oh give me my beard again, and I will instruct you in all the magic art that surrounds this castle, and will help you to carry off the hidden treasure, which will make you rich and happy for ever.’
Who acts: man, I, magic art, you, hidden treasure · What happens: whine, sob out, give, instruct, surround, help · To what, where: beard, me, you, magic art, castle, hidden treasure
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 (man, I, magic art, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 whined | nsubj |
| 2 | whined | whine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sobbed | cc |
| 4 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 whined | conj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 sobbed | compound:prt |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Give | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Give | punct |
| 8 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 whined | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 10 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 11 give | discourse |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Give | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 beard | nmod:poss |
| 14 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 give | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 instruct | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 instruct | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 instruct | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 instruct | aux |
| 20 | instruct | instruct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Give | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 instruct | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 art | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 art | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 art | det |
| 25 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 art | compound |
| 26 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 instruct | obl |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 surrounds | nsubj |
| 28 | surrounds | surround | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 art | acl:relcl |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 castle | det |
| 30 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 surrounds | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 help | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 help | cc |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 help | aux |
| 34 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Give | conj |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 help | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 carry | mark |
| 37 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 help | xcomp |
| 38 | off | off | ADP | _ | 37 carry | compound:prt |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 treasure | det |
| 40 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 treasure | amod |
| 41 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 carry | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 make | punct |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 make | nsubj |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 make | aux |
| 45 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 treasure | acl:relcl |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 make | obj |
| 47 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 make | xcomp |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 happy | cc |
| 49 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 rich | conj |
| 50 | for | for | ADP | _ | 51 ever | case |
| 51 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 47 rich | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 whined | punct |
| 53 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 whined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whine | past | man | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sob out | participle | man not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | man not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | give | infinitive | man not said here | my beard | me | again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient beard=Theme | ||
| 5 | instruct speech: other | future | I | you | all magic art | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 6 | surround | present | all magic art | this castle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=Co-Theme | ||||
| 7 | help | future | man not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 8 | carry off | to-infinitive | you not said here | the hidden treasure | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | ||||
| 9 | make | future | the hidden treasure | you | rich property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
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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