The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 5

At last they ceased playing, and began to eat and drink and listen to the talk that was going on around them.

Who acts: musicians, talk · What happens: cease, play, begin, eat, drink, listen · To what, where: last

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, talk), 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 ceased	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ceased	nsubj
4	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 ceased	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ceased	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 drink	cc
12	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 eat	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 listen	cc
14	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 eat	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 talk	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 talk	det
17	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 listen	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 going	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 going	aux
20	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 talk	acl:relcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	20 going	compound:prt
22	around	around	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 going	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	cease	past	musicians = musician	last		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	play	gerund	musicians = musician not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	musicians = musician not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	eat	to-infinitive	musicians = musician not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drink	infinitive	musicians = musician not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	listen	infinitive	musicians = musician not said here		to the talk	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to talk=Theme
7	go on	past · progressive	the talk		around musicians = musician	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around they=Location

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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