The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 6
They heard all the gossip of the place, and many wonderful things were related and discussed.
Who acts: musicians, many wonderful things, place · What happens: hear, be, discuss, gossip · To what, where: gossip
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, many wonderful things, place), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 gossip | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gossip | det |
| 5 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gossip | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 related | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 related | cc |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 12 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 related | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 related | cop |
| 15 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 heard | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 discussed | cc |
| 17 | discussed | discuss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | musicians = musician | all gossip of the place | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer gossip=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | many wonderful things | related property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | discuss speech: other | past | musicians = musician not said here | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | gossip | the place | nom gossip «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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