The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 35
Towards nine at night the bagpiper re-appeared on the market place.
Who acts: nine · What happens: re-appear · To what, where: market place
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 (nine), 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 | Towards | towards | ADV | _ | 2 nine | advmod |
| 2 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 re-appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nine | nmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bagpiper | det |
| 6 | bagpiper | bagpiper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 re-appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | re-appeared | re-appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 10 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 place | compound |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 re-appeared | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 re-appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | re-appear | past | nine at night | the market place | 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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