The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 34
And the good people of Hamel repeated with their counsellors, ‘Leave it to the Town Counsellor.’
Who acts: good people · What happens: repeat, leave · To what, where: council, Town Counsellor
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 (good people), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 repeated | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 repeated | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Hamel | case |
| 6 | Hamel | Hamel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 people | nmod |
| 7 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 counsellors | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 counsellors | nmod:poss |
| 10 | counsellors | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 repeated | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 counsellors | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Leave | punct |
| 13 | Leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 repeated | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Leave | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Counsellor | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Counsellor | det |
| 17 | Town | town | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Counsellor | amod |
| 18 | Counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Leave | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Leave | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | participle | the good people of Hamel | with people's counsellors | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with counsellor=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | council | the Town Counsellor | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to counsellor=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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