The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 75

Next day, which was a Sunday, they all went gaily to church, thinking that after Mass they would at last be able to eat some good thing that the rats had not tasted before them.

Who acts: Next day, hand, rats · What happens: be, go, think, eat, not taste · To what, where: Sunday, church, last, good thing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Next day, hand, rats), 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:pg540:2478): 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Sunday	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 Sunday	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Sunday	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Sunday	det
7	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 day	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Sunday	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 they	det
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	gaily	gaily	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 church	case
14	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thinking	punct
16	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 went	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 able	mark
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 Mass	case
19	Mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 able	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 able	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 able	aux
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 able	obl
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 able	cop
25	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thinking	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 eat	mark
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 able	xcomp
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 thing	det
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 thing	amod
30	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eat	obj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 tasted	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 rats	det
33	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 tasted	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 tasted	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 tasted	advmod
36	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 thing	acl:relcl
37	before	before	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 tasted	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Next day	a Sunday				tree rules
2	go	past	hand		church	day	gaily property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
3	think speech: other	gerund	hand not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	would	hand		last	after Mass	able property	tree rules
5	eat	to-infinitive	hand not said here	some good thing				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
6	not taste	past · perfect	the rats	some good thing		before hand		vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent that=Theme before they=Location

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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