The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 27
The Town Counsellor simply shrugged his shoulders and said to the stranger:
Who acts: Town Counsellor · What happens: shrug, say · To what, where: shoulders, stranger · 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: 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 | 5 shrugged | nsubj |
| 4 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 5 shrugged | advmod |
| 5 | shrugged | shrug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shrugged | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shrugged | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 stranger | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stranger | det |
| 12 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 shrugged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrug | past | the Town Counsellor | gros's shoulders | simply property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Town Counsellor not said here | the stranger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to stranger=Recipient |
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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