The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 14
He stopped on the great market-place before the town hall, turned his back on the church and went on with his music, singing:
Who acts: two · What happens: stop, turn, go on, sing · To what, where: great market place, back, church
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 (two), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 place | amod |
| 6 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 market | punct |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stopped | obl |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 hall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hall | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hall | compound |
| 12 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stopped | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 church | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 church | det |
| 19 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stopped | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 music | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 music | nmod:poss |
| 25 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 singing | punct |
| 27 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 went | advcl |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | two | the great market place before the town hall | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | two not said here | two's back | the church | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme | |||
| 3 | go on | past | two not said here | with two's music | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | two not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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