The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 13
That is how he may be seen to this day, painted on a window of the cathedral of Hamel.
Who acts: That · What happens: be, see, paint · To what, where: two, window
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 (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 how | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 how | cop |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 how | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 painted | punct |
| 12 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 seen | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 window | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 window | det |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 painted | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cathedral | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cathedral | det |
| 18 | cathedral | cathedral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 window | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Hamel | case |
| 20 | Hamel | Hamel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 cathedral | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 how | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | may · passive | two | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | paint | participle | a window of the cathedral of Hamel | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on window=Destination |
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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