More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 17
Why there wasn't a ratcatcher from John o' Groat's house to the Land's End that hadn't tried his luck.
Who acts: ratcatcher · What happens: be, not try · To what, where: End
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ratcatcher), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | advcl |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 ratcatcher | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ratcatcher | det |
| 6 | ratcatcher | ratcatcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 John | case |
| 8 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ratcatcher | nmod |
| 9 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 13 house | case |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 house | punct |
| 11 | Groat | Groat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Groat | case |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ratcatcher | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 End | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Land | det |
| 16 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 End | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Land | case |
| 18 | End | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 tried | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 tried | advmod |
| 22 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 End | acl:relcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 luck | nmod:poss |
| 24 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tried | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a ratcatcher from John of Groat's house to the Land's End | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not try | past · perfect · passive | the Land's End | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer luck=Result |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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