The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 85

Only the three little ones who told the adventure had remained outside, as if by a miracle.

Who acts: three little ones · What happens: tell, remain · To what, where: adventure · 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 ones), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	5 ones	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ones	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ones	nummod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ones	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 adventure	det
9	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remained	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 remained	aux
11	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 told	ccomp
12	outside	outside	ADV	_	11 remained	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 miracle	punct
14	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	18 miracle	case
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 as	fixed
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 miracle	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 miracle	det
18	miracle	miracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remained	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ones	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the three little ones						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	remain	past · perfect · passive		the adventure				as a miracle; outside property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

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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