The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 79
Then through the east door of the town came three little boys, who cried and wept, and this is what they told:
Who acts: three little boys, this, children · What happens: come, cry, weep, be, tell · To what, where: three little boys, east door · 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 (three little boys, this, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 came | advmod |
| 2 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 4 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 door | amod |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 door | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 boys | nummod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boys | amod |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 boys | acl:relcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wept | cc |
| 17 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 what | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 what | cc |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 what | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 what | cop |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 came | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 told | nsubj |
| 24 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 what | acl:relcl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | three little boys | the east door of the town | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | three little boys | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | weep | past | three little boys not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | children = child | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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