The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 89
At last, the night falling, they returned desolate to Hamel.
Who acts: children · What happens: fall, return, desolate · To what, where: last, Hamel
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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 returned | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 falling | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 last | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 returned | nsubj |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 returned | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Hamel | case |
| 12 | Hamel | Hamel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 desolate | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | gerund | children = child not said here | night | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | past | children = child | last | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | desolate | infinitive | children = child not said here | Hamel | tree rules |
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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