The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 23
‘Leave it to the Town Counsellor,’ said the citizens one to another.
What happens: leave, say · To what, where: truth, Town Counsellor, citizens · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 2 | Leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Leave | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Counsellor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Counsellor | det |
| 6 | Town | town | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Counsellor | amod |
| 7 | Counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Leave | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 citizens | det |
| 12 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 citizens | flat |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 another | case |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | infinitive | truth | the Town Counsellor | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to counsellor=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the citizens | 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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