The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 76
They never suspected the terrible surprise that awaited them on their return home.
Who acts: hand, terrible surprise · What happens: not suspect, await, return · To what, where: terrible surprise, hand, return
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 (hand, terrible surprise), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 suspected | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 suspected | advmod |
| 3 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 surprise | det |
| 5 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 surprise | amod |
| 6 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suspected | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 awaited | nsubj |
| 8 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 surprise | acl:relcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 awaited | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 return | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 return | nmod:poss |
| 12 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 awaited | obl |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 awaited | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suspected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not suspect | past | hand | the terrible surprise | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent surprise=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | await | past | the terrible surprise | hand | hand's return | home property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | return | hand | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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