The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 9

As soon as the three musicians were alone in their bedroom they agreed to go and examine the mysterious castle, and, if possible, to find and carry away the hidden treasure.

Who acts: three musicians, bedroom · What happens: be, agree, go, examine, find, carry away · To what, where: bedroom, mysterious 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 (three musicians, bedroom), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 agreed	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 bedroom	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 musicians	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 musicians	nummod
6	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bedroom	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bedroom	cop
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 bedroom	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bedroom	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bedroom	nmod:poss
11	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 agreed	nsubj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 agreed	nsubj
13	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 agreed	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 examine	cc
17	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 castle	det
19	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 castle	amod
20	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 examine	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 find	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 find	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 possible	mark
25	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 find	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 possible	punct
27	to	to	PART	_	28 find	mark
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 agreed	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 carry	cc
30	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 find	conj
31	away	away	ADP	_	30 carry	compound:prt
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 treasure	det
33	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 treasure	amod
34	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carry	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the three musicians		musicians's bedroom	alone property	tree rules
2	agree speech: agree	past	musicians's bedroom			soon property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	musicians's bedroom not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	examine	infinitive	musicians's bedroom not said here	the mysterious castle			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
5	find	to-infinitive	musicians's bedroom not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	carry away	infinitive	musicians's bedroom not said here	the hidden treasure			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme

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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