The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 21
Well, we must learn to catch the devil in his own snares.
Who acts: we, devil · What happens: learn, catch, snare · To what, where: devil, own snares
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 (we, devil), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 learn | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 learn | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 learn | aux |
| 5 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 catch | mark |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 learn | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 devil | det |
| 9 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catch | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 snares | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 snares | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 snares | amod |
| 13 | snares | snare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 catch | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | must | we | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | we not said here | the devil | devil's own snares | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devil=Theme | |||
| 3 | snare | devil | nom snare «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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