The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 80
While the parents were at church a wonderful music had resounded.
Who acts: parents, church · What happens: be, resound · To what, where: church, wonderful music
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 (parents, church), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 church | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 parents | det |
| 3 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 church | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 church | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 church | case |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 music | det |
| 8 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 music | amod |
| 9 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 resounded | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 resounded | aux |
| 11 | resounded | resound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 church | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 church | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the parents | church | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | resound | past · perfect · passive | church not said here | a wonderful music | vn sound_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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