The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 52
‘Then go and join them, old sire, and au revoir.’
Who acts: you · What happens: go, join · To what, where: old sire, shoulders
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 (you), 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 | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 go | advmod |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 join | cc |
| 5 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 join | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sire | punct |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sire | amod |
| 9 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 revoir | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 revoir | cc |
| 12 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 revoir | compound |
| 13 | revoir | revoir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | old sire | then | au revoir obl | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | join | infinitive | you not said here | shoulders = shoulder | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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