The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 90

But the most unhappy of all was the Town Counsellor, for he lost three little boys and two pretty little girls, and to crown all, the people of Hamel overwhelmed him with reproaches, forgetting that the evening before they had all agreed with him.

Who acts: all, Hamel, people · What happens: be, lose, crown, overwhelm, forget, agree · To what, where: three little boys, all, 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 (all, Hamel, people), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 unhappy	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 unhappy	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 unhappy	advmod
4	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 Counsellor	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 Counsellor	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Counsellor	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Counsellor	det
9	Town	town	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Counsellor	amod
10	Counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unhappy	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lost	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 lost	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lost	nsubj
14	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unhappy	parataxis
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 boys	nummod
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 boys	amod
17	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lost	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 girls	cc
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 girls	nummod
20	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	21 little	advmod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 girls	amod
22	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 boys	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 crown	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 crown	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 crown	mark
26	crown	crown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 lost	conj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 crown	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 overwhelmed	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 people	det
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 overwhelmed	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Hamel	case
32	Hamel	Hamel	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 people	nmod
33	overwhelmed	overwhelm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unhappy	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 overwhelmed	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 reproaches	case
36	reproaches	reproach	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 overwhelmed	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 forgetting	punct
38	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 overwhelmed	advcl
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 evening	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 evening	det
41	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 forgetting	advcl
42	before	before	SCONJ	_	46 agreed	mark
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 agreed	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 agreed	aux
45	all	all	ADV	_	46 agreed	advmod
46	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 forgetting	advcl
47	with	with	ADP	_	48 him	case
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 agreed	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unhappy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	all		of the Town Counsellor	tree rules
2	lose	past	Hamel	three little boys and two little girls		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality
3	crown	to-infinitive	Hamel not said here	all		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme
4	overwhelm	past	the people of Hamel	Hamel	with reproaches	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	forget	gerund	the people of Hamel not said here			tree rules
6	agree speech: agree	past · perfect	people		with Hamel; all property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-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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