The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 18

‘Then he is a sorcerer!’ cried the citizens with one voice; ‘we must beware of him.’

Who acts: stranger, sorcerer, we · What happens: be, cry, beware · To what, where: sorcerer, citizens

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 (stranger, sorcerer, we), 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	_	6 sorcerer	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sorcerer	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sorcerer	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sorcerer	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sorcerer	det
6	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 sorcerer	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 sorcerer	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 citizens	det
11	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cried	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 voice	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 voice	nummod
14	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 beware	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 beware	punct
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 beware	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 beware	aux
19	beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 beware	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 beware	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 beware	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	stranger	a sorcerer	then		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	a sorcerer	the citizens		with one voice	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent citizen=Topic
3	beware	must	we			of stranger	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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