The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 92

The parents always hoped they were not dead, and that the rat-catcher, who certainly must have come out of the mountain, would have taken them with him to his country.

Who acts: parents, rat catcher · What happens: hope, not be, come out, take · To what, where: parents, country · 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 (parents, rat catcher), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parents	det
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hoped	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 hoped	advmod
4	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dead	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 dead	advmod
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hoped	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 catcher	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 catcher	cc
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 catcher	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rat	det
13	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 catcher	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 rat	punct
15	catcher	catcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hoped	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 come	nsubj
18	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 catcher	parataxis
22	out	out	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 mountain	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mountain	det
25	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 taken	punct
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 taken	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 taken	aux
29	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 hoped	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 taken	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 taken	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 country	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 country	nmod:poss
35	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 taken	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hoped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hope	past	the parents			always property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	not is	past	parents = parent			dead property	tree rules
3	come out	must · perfect	rat catcher			of the mountain; certainly, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	take	would · perfect	the parents not said here	parents = parent	Hamel's country	with Hamel	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to country=Destination

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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