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title: As soon as the three musicians were alone in their bedroom they agre… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians, with its depende
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 9

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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.

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**Who acts:** three musicians, bedroom · **What happens:** be, agree, go, examine, find, carry away · **To what, where:** bedroom, mysterious castle, hidden treasure

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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 (three musicians, bedroom), 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:pg7277:55:9
# text = 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.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	musicians	musician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	examine	examine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
31	away	away	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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