The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 98
‘Now,’ said the merchants of Bremen, ‘these Germans cannot be other than the descendants of the lost children of Hamel.’
Who acts: other, Germans · What happens: say, not be, lose · To what, where: merchants · 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 (other, Germans), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 merchants | det |
| 7 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Bremen | case |
| 9 | Bremen | Bremen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 merchants | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 other | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 other | punct |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 Germans | det |
| 13 | Germans | german | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 other | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 other | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 other | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 other | cop |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | nsubj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 descendants | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 descendants | det |
| 20 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 other | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 children | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 children | det |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 children | amod |
| 24 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 descendants | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Hamel | case |
| 26 | Hamel | Hamel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 children | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | other | the merchants of Bremen | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent merchant=Topic | |||
| 2 | not is | can | this Germans | than the descendants of the lost children of Hamel; other property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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