The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 40
Arrived there he turned round; the rats were following.
Who acts: river, rats · What happens: arrive, turn round, follow
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 (river, rats), 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 | Arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Arrived | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Arrived | conj |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 following | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rats | det |
| 8 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 following | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 following | aux |
| 10 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Arrived | parataxis |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn round | past | river | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | past · progressive | the rats | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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