The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 15
‘Who lives shall see: This is he, The ratcatcher.’
Who acts: This · What happens: live, see, be · To what, where: ratcatcher
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 (This), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 lives | nsubj |
| 3 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lives | xcomp |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 ratcatcher | punct |
| 7 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 ratcatcher | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ratcatcher | cop |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ratcatcher | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ratcatcher | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ratcatcher | det |
| 12 | ratcatcher | ratcatcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | see | shall | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | This | the ratcatcher | 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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