The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 31

He added that the inhabitants should at that hour leave the streets free, and content themselves with looking out of their windows at what was passing, and that it would be a pleasant spectacle.

Who acts: moon, inhabitants, window · What happens: add, leave, content, look out, pass, be · To what, where: streets, windows, pleasant spectacle · 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 (moon, inhabitants, window), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 added	nsubj
2	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 leave	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 inhabitants	det
5	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 leave	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 leave	aux
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 hour	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 hour	det
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leave	obl
10	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 added	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 streets	det
12	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 leave	obj
13	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 leave	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 content	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 content	cc
16	content	content	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 added	parataxis
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 content	obj
18	with	with	SCONJ	_	19 looking	mark
19	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 content	advcl
20	out	out	ADP	_	23 windows	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 windows	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 windows	nmod:poss
23	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 looking	obl
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 what	case
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 windows	nmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 passing	aux
27	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 what	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 spectacle	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 spectacle	cc
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 spectacle	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 spectacle	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 spectacle	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 spectacle	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 spectacle	det
35	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 spectacle	amod
36	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 added	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	past	moon				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	leave	should	the inhabitants	the streets	hour	free property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Theme
3	content	infinitive		streets = street			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer
4	look out	gerund		inhabitants's windows			tree rules
5	pass	past · progressive					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	would	window	a pleasant spectacle			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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