The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 99

The people of Hamel did not doubt it; and since that day they regard it as certain that the Transylvanians of Hungary are their country folk, whose ancestors, as children, were brought there by the ratcatcher.

Who acts: people, Transylvanians, ratcatcher · What happens: not doubt, regard, be, bring · To what, where: country, country folk

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, Transylvanians, ratcatcher), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 doubt	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Hamel	case
4	Hamel	Hamel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 people	nmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doubt	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 doubt	advmod
7	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 doubt	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 regard	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 regard	cc
11	since	since	ADP	_	13 day	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 regard	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 regard	nsubj
15	regard	regard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 doubt	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 regard	obj
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 certain	case
18	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 regard	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 folk	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Transylvanians	det
21	Transylvanians	Transylvanian	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 folk	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Hungary	case
23	Hungary	Hungary	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Transylvanians	nmod
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 folk	cop
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 folk	nmod:poss
26	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 folk	compound
27	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 regard	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ancestors	punct
29	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	30 ancestors	nmod:poss
30	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 folk	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 children	punct
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 children	case
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 regard	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 brought	punct
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 brought	aux:pass
36	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 regard	conj
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 brought	advmod
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 ratcatcher	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 ratcatcher	det
40	ratcatcher	ratcatcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 brought	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 doubt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not doubt	past · do-support	the people of Hamel	country				vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	regard	present	people	country		day	as certain; as children	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent it=Theme as certain=Value
3	is a	present	the Transylvanians of Hungary	people's country folk and people's country folk and country folk's ancestors's ancestors				tree rules
4	bring	past · passive	the ratcatcher		there			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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