The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 56

The next morning, at nine o’clock, the bagpiper repaired to the town hall, where the town council awaited him.

Who acts: town council · What happens: repair, await · To what, where: bagpiper, Hamel

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 (town council), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 o’clock	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 o’clock	case
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 o’clock	nummod
7	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 morning	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bagpiper	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bagpiper	det
10	bagpiper	bagpiper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 o’clock	appos
11	repaired	repair	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bagpiper	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 hall	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hall	det
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hall	compound
15	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 repaired	obl:agent
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 awaited	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 awaited	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 council	det
19	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 council	compound
20	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 awaited	nsubj
21	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hall	acl:relcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 awaited	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repair	participle		the bagpiper not said here					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	await	past	the town council	Hamel					tree rules

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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