The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 26

‘A _gros_ a head!’ cried the citizens, ‘but that will come to millions of florins!’

Who acts: _ gros, that · What happens: cry, come · To what, where: citizens, millions

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 (_ gros, that), 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	_	10 cried	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gros	det
3	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gros	amod
4	gros	gros	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	nsubj
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 head	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 head	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gros	appos
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 head	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 head	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 citizens	det
12	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cried	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 come	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 millions	case
20	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 come	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 florins	case
22	florins	florin	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 millions	nmod
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	a _ gros	the citizens					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent citizen=Topic
2	come	future	that			millions of florins			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to million=Initial_Location

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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