The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 82
There they found the ratcatcher playing his bagpipes at the same spot as the evening before.
Who acts: boys, ratcatcher · What happens: find, play · To what, where: ratcatcher, bagpipes, same spot
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 (boys, ratcatcher), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 found | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ratcatcher | det |
| 5 | ratcatcher | ratcatcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 found | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bagpipes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bagpipes | bagpipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 playing | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 spot | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spot | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spot | amod |
| 12 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 playing | obl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 evening | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 evening | det |
| 15 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 playing | obl |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 playing | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | boys = boy | the ratcatcher | there | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ratcatcher=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | play | gerund | the ratcatcher not said here | ratcatcher's bagpipes | the same spot | evening | before property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bagpipe=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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