The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 95

About one hundred and fifty years after the event, when there was no longer one left of the fathers, mothers, brothers or sisters of that day, there arrived one evening in Hamel some merchants of Bremen returning from the East, who asked to speak with the citizens.

Who acts: merchants, East · What happens: leave, arrive, return, ask, speak · To what, where: Hamel, East · 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 (merchants, East), 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	About	about	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fifty	cc
5	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	conj
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 arrived	obl:unmarked
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 event	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 event	det
9	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 years	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 was	advmod
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 event	acl:relcl
14	no	no	ADV	_	15 longer	advmod
15	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 was	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 longer	obl
17	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 one	acl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 fathers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fathers	det
20	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 left	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mothers	punct
22	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fathers	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 brothers	punct
24	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fathers	conj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 sisters	cc
26	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fathers	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 day	case
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sisters	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 arrived	punct
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 arrived	expl
32	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 evening	nummod
34	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 arrived	obl:unmarked
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 Hamel	case
36	Hamel	Hamel	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 arrived	obl
37	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	38 merchants	det
38	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 arrived	conj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Bremen	case
40	Bremen	Bremen	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 merchants	nmod
41	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 merchants	acl
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 East	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 East	det
44	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 returning	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 asked	punct
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 asked	nsubj
47	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 East	acl:relcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 speak	mark
49	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 asked	xcomp
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 citizens	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 citizens	det
52	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 speak	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle				of the fathers and mothers and brothers or sisters of that day	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of father=Initial_Location
2	arrive	past		Hamel; there	evening; year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	return	gerund	some merchants of Bremen not said here	the East			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from east=Initial_Location
4	ask speech: ask	past	the East				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	the East not said here			with the citizens	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with citizen=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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