The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 30
The bagpiper announced that he would operate that very evening when the moon rose.
Who acts: bagpiper, sorcerer, moon · What happens: announce, operate, rise · 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 (bagpiper, sorcerer, moon), 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 | 2 bagpiper | det |
| 2 | bagpiper | bagpiper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 announced | nsubj |
| 3 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 operate | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 operate | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 operate | aux |
| 7 | operate | operate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 announced | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 evening | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 evening | advmod |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 operate | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 rose | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moon | det |
| 13 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | nsubj |
| 14 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 operate | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | the bagpiper | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | operate | would | sorcerer | evening | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | the moon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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