The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 96

They told that they, in crossing Hungary, had sojourned in a mountainous country called Transylvania, where the inhabitants only spoke German, while all around them nothing was spoken but Hungarian.

Who acts: merchants, inhabitants · What happens: tell, cross, sojourn, call, speak · To what, where: Hungary, mountainous country, German, nothing · 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, inhabitants), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	ADP	_	4 they	case
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 crossing	punct
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 crossing	mark
7	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 told	advcl
8	Hungary	Hungary	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 crossing	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sojourned	punct
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sojourned	aux
11	sojourned	sojourn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 country	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 country	det
14	mountainous	mountainous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 country	amod
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sojourned	obl
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 country	acl
17	Transylvania	Transylvania	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 called	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 spoke	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 spoke	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 inhabitants	det
21	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 spoke	nsubj
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 spoke	advmod
23	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Transylvania	acl:relcl
24	German	German	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 spoke	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 spoken	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 spoken	mark
27	all	all	ADV	_	32 spoken	advmod
28	around	around	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 all	obl
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 spoken	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 spoken	aux:pass
32	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 sojourned	parataxis
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 Hungarian	cc
34	Hungarian	Hungarian	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 spoken	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	merchants = merchant			that citizens = citizen	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cross	gerund	merchants = merchant not said here	Hungary			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hungary=Patient
3	sojourn	past · perfect	merchants = merchant not said here		a mountainous country		vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location
4	call	participle		a mountainous country not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	speak speech: other	past	the inhabitants	German			tree rules
6	speak speech: other	past · passive		nothing		all property	tree rules

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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