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title: The people of Hamel did not doubt it; and since that day they regard… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 99

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:32:99
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Hamel	Hamel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	doubt	doubt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	since	since	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	regard	regard	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Transylvanians	Transylvanian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Hungary	Hungary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
37	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	ratcatcher	ratcatcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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.

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**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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