The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 78

‘Our children! where are our poor children?’ was the cry that was soon heard in all the streets.

Who acts: children · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: cry, streets

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 (children), 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	_	5 where	punct
2	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 children	nmod:poss
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 where	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 children	punct
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 where	cop
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 children	nmod:poss
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 children	amod
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 are	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 are	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 cry	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cry	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cry	det
14	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 where	appos
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 heard	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	aux:pass
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 heard	advmod
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 cry	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 streets	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 streets	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 streets	det
22	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heard	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 where	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Our children			where property	tree rules
2	is a	past		the cry			tree rules
3	hear	past · passive		the cry	all streets	soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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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