The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 94
It was not till much later that anything was to be heard of them.
What happens: not hear · To what, where: country
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 heard | advmod |
| 4 | till | till | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 later | advmod |
| 6 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 heard | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 anything | det |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | aux:pass |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 heard | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 heard | aux:pass |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past · passive | country | of parents = parent; late property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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