The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 46
‘Are they all there, friend Blanchet?’ asked the bagpiper.
Who acts: rats, friend · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: bagpiper
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 (rats, friend), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 there | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 there | nsubj |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | Blanchet | Blanchet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 friend | appos |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bagpiper | det |
| 13 | bagpiper | bagpiper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | rats = rat | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | friend | the bagpiper | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bagpiper=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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