The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 87
At this story the parents redoubled their lamentations.
Who acts: parents · What happens: redouble, lament · To what, where: lamentations, story
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 redoubled | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 parents | det |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 redoubled | nsubj |
| 6 | redoubled | redouble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lamentations | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lamentations | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 redoubled | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 redoubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | redouble | past | the parents | parents's lamentations | this story | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lamentation=Patient | |||
| 2 | lament | parents = parent | nom lamentation «communication transitive»: poss=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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