The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 36

He turned, as at first, his back to the church, and the moment the moon rose on the horizon, ‘Trarira, trari!’ the bagpipes resounded.

Who acts: nine, moment, Trarira · What happens: turn, rise, resound · To what, where: back, horizon

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, moment, Trarira), 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 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 first	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 first	case
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 first	case
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 turned	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 back	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 back	nmod:poss
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 church	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 church	det
12	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 back	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rose	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rose	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moment	det
16	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rose	nsubj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 moon	det
18	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rose	nsubj
19	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 horizon	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 horizon	det
22	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rose	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Trarira	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 Trarira	punct
25	Trarira	Trarira	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 resounded	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 trari	punct
27	trari	trari	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Trarira	appos
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 trari	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 trari	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bagpipes	det
31	bagpipes	bagpipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 resounded	nsubj
32	resounded	resound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 rose	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	nine	nine's back to the church		first property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	rise	past	the moment		the horizon		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horizon=Location
3	resound	past	Trarira				vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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