The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 44
At last, dragging himself with difficulty, came a big rat, white with age, and stopped on the bank.
Who acts: big rat · What happens: drag, come, stop · To what, where: plunging, last, bank
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 (big rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:2456): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 came | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dragging | punct |
| 4 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 dragging | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 difficulty | case |
| 7 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dragging | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dragging | punct |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rat | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rat | amod |
| 12 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 white | punct |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rat | amod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 age | case |
| 16 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 white | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stopped | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stopped | cc |
| 19 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 bank | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bank | det |
| 22 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stopped | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | gerund | a big rat not said here | plunging | with difficulty | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | a big rat | last | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | a big rat not said here | the bank | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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