The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 93
That is why for several years they sent in search of them to different countries, but no one ever came on the trace of the poor little ones.
Who acts: That, parents, one · What happens: be, send, come, search · To what, where: search, trace, children
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 (That, parents, one), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 years | amod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 search | case |
| 10 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 search | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 countries | case |
| 14 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 countries | amod |
| 15 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sent | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 came | advmod |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 trace | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 trace | det |
| 24 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 ones | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ones | det |
| 27 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ones | amod |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ones | amod |
| 29 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 trace | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | past | parents = parent | search of children | year | to different countries | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in search=Destination | ||
| 3 | come | past | no one | the trace of the poor little ones | ever | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on trace=Location | |||
| 4 | search | children = child | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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