The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 16
The town council had just assembled to consider once more this plague of Egypt, from which no one could save the town.
Who acts: one · What happens: assemble, consider, save, plague · To what, where: town council, plague, town, Egypt
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 (one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 council | det |
| 2 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 council | compound |
| 3 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 assembled | aux |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 assembled | advmod |
| 6 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 consider | mark |
| 8 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 assembled | xcomp |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 consider | advmod |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 plague | det |
| 12 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 consider | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Egypt | case |
| 14 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 plague | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 save | punct |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 save | obl |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 save | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 save | aux |
| 21 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 consider | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 save | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past · perfect · passive | the town council | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | consider | to-infinitive | this plague of Egypt | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent plague=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | save | could | no one | the town | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent town=Theme from which=Source | ||||
| 4 | plague | Egypt | nom plague «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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