The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 155

‘Then we are much obliged to you,’ said the rats, and they went back to their friends.

Who acts: rats · What happens: oblige, say, go back · To what, where: we, you, rats · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rats), 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	_	6 obliged	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 obliged	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 obliged	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 obliged	aux:pass
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 obliged	advmod
6	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 obliged	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 obliged	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rats	det
13	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 friends	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 friends	nmod:poss
21	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 went	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	present · passive		we	you	then		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past		the rats				tree rules
3	go back	past	rats = rat				to rats's friends result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to friend=Result

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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