The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 19
The Town Counsellor, who was considered clever, reassured them.
Who acts: Town Counsellor · What happens: consider, reassure · To what, where: Town Counsellor, 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 (Town Counsellor), 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 Counsellor | det |
| 2 | Town | town | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Counsellor | amod |
| 3 | Counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reassured | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 considered | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 considered | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 considered | aux:pass |
| 7 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Counsellor | acl:relcl |
| 8 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 considered | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Counsellor | punct |
| 10 | reassured | reassure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reassured | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reassured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past · passive | the Town Counsellor | clever property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | reassure | past | the Town Counsellor | citizens = citizen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=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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