The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 63
The ratcatcher did not expect this treacherous stroke.
Who acts: ratcatcher · What happens: not expect · To what, where: treacherous stroke
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 (ratcatcher), 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 | 2 ratcatcher | det |
| 2 | ratcatcher | ratcatcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expect | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 expect | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 expect | advmod |
| 5 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 stroke | det |
| 7 | treacherous | treacherous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stroke | amod |
| 8 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expect | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not expect | past · do-support | the ratcatcher | this treacherous stroke | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroke=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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