The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 97
These people also declared that they came from Germany, but they did not know how they chanced to be in this strange country.
Who acts: people · What happens: declare, come, not know, chance, be · To what, where: Germany, strange 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 (people), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 declared | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 declared | advmod |
| 4 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 declared | advcl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Germany | case |
| 9 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 know | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 declared | conj |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 chanced | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 chanced | nsubj |
| 18 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 country | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 country | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 country | det |
| 23 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 country | amod |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chanced | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | this people | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | people | Germany | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from germany=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | chance | past | people | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | people not said here | this strange country | 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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