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title: The next morning they were much astonished at finding the fiddler in… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next morning they were much astonished at finding the fiddler in bed beside them, and overwhelmed him with questions; but their friend hid his back and face, and answered them very shortly, saying, ‘Go there yourselves, and see what’s to be seen! Who acts: musicians, friend. A sentence of «The G
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 28

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The next morning they were much astonished at finding the fiddler in bed beside them, and overwhelmed him with questions; but their friend hid his back and face, and answered them very shortly, saying, ‘Go there yourselves, and see what’s to be seen!

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**Who acts:** musicians, friend · **What happens:** be, find, overwhelm, hide, answer, say · **To what, where:** fiddler, bed, back, musicians, yourselves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:55:28
# text = The next morning they were much astonished at finding the fiddler in bed beside them, and overwhelmed him with questions; but their friend hid his back and face, and answered them very shortly, saying, ‘Go there yourselves, and see what’s to be seen!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	overwhelmed	overwhelm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	38	ccomp	_	_
42	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
43	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
47	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	48	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	ccomp	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
50	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | musicians *= musician* |  |  |  | morning | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | gerund | musicians *= musician* *not said here* | the fiddler |  | bed |  | beside musicians *= musician* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddler=Topic |
| 3 | **overwhelm** | past | musicians *= musician* *not said here* | fiddler |  |  |  | with questions | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 4 | **hide** | past | musicians's friend | fiddler's back and face |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient |
| 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | musicians *= musician* |  |  | shortly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **go** | infinitive |  | yourselves |  | there |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yourselves=Theme |
| 8 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |

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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.

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**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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