The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 70

But the clever flute-player was quite a match for the little man in cunning, and said: ‘All right, you needn’t be afraid, you shall get your beard back before we part; but you must allow my bride and me to accompany you a bit on your homeward way.’

Who acts: clever flute player, you, me · What happens: be, say, not be, get back, allow, accompany · To what, where: match, beard, bride, you, homeward way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (clever flute player, you, me), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 match	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 player	det
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 player	amod
4	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 player	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 flute	punct
6	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 match	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 match	cop
8	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	10 match	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 match	det
10	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 man	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 match	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 cunning	case
16	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 match	parataxis
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 right	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 right	punct
22	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 right	det
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 said	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 afraid	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 afraid	nsubj
26	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 afraid	aux
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 afraid	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 afraid	cop
29	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 right	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 get	punct
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 get	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 get	aux
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 right	conj
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 beard	nmod:poss
35	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 get	obj
36	back	back	ADV	_	33 get	advmod
37	before	before	ADP	_	39 part	case
38	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 part	nsubj
39	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 get	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 allow	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 allow	cc
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 allow	nsubj
43	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 allow	aux
44	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
45	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 bride	nmod:poss
46	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 allow	obj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 accompany	cc
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 accompany	nsubj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 accompany	mark
50	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 allow	conj
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 accompany	obj
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 bit	det
53	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 accompany	obl:unmarked
54	on	on	ADP	_	57 way	case
55	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 way	nmod:poss
56	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 way	compound
57	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 accompany	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	44 allow	punct
59	’	'	PUNCT	_	44 allow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the clever flute player	quite match				for the little man in cunning	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is	present	you					afraid property	tree rules
4	get back	shall	you	your beard			before part		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beard=Stimulus
5	allow	must	you		my bride				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Beneficiary
6	accompany	to-infinitive	me	you		your homeward way		a bit obl:unmarked	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme on way=Destination

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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