The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 33
‘Leave it to the Town Counsellor,’ said the town council with a malicious air.
What happens: leave, say · To what, where: deal, Town Counsellor, town council · 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 | 13 council | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 council | compound |
| 13 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 16 | malicious | malicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 air | amod |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 council | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | infinitive | deal | 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 town council | with a malicious air | 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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