The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 1
A very long time ago the town of Hamel in Germany was invaded by bands of rats, the like of which had never been seen before nor will ever be again.
Who acts: bands · What happens: invade, not see, be · To what, where: town
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bands), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 invaded | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 invaded | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Hamel | case |
| 9 | Hamel | Hamel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 town | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Germany | case |
| 11 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Hamel | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 invaded | aux:pass |
| 13 | invaded | invade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 bands | case |
| 15 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 invaded | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rats | case |
| 17 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bands | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 seen | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 which | det |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 seen | aux |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 seen | advmod |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 seen | aux:pass |
| 26 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 invaded | conj |
| 27 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 26 seen | advmod |
| 28 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 32 again | cc |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 again | aux |
| 30 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 32 again | advmod |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 again | cop |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 seen | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 invaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invade | past · passive | bands of rats | the town of Hamel in Germany | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not see | past · perfect · passive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | is | future | ever | again property | tree rules |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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