The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 3

When dressing in the morning they found them in their breeches and petticoats, in their pockets and in their boots; and when they wanted a morsel to eat, the voracious horde had swept away everything from cellar to garret.

Who acts: people, morsel · What happens: dress, find, want, eat, sweep away · To what, where: bands, breeches, morsel, voracious horde, cellar

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, morsel), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	2 dressing	advmod
2	dressing	dress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 found	advcl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 morning	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 morning	det
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dressing	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 breeches	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 breeches	nmod:poss
11	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 found	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 petticoats	cc
13	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 breeches	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pockets	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 pockets	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 pockets	nmod:poss
17	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 found	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 boots	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 boots	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 boots	nmod:poss
21	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pockets	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 wanted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wanted	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 wanted	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wanted	nsubj
26	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 morsel	det
28	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wanted	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 eat	mark
30	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wanted	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 swept	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 horde	det
33	voracious	voracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 horde	amod
34	horde	horde	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 swept	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 swept	aux
36	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 wanted	conj
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 swept	advmod
38	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	36 swept	obj
39	from	from	ADP	_	40 cellar	case
40	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 swept	obl
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 garret	case
42	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 swept	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	gerund	people not said here			morning		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	people	bands = band	people's breeches and petticoats		in people's pockets and people's boots	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
3	want	past	people	a morsel				tree rules
4	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	a morsel not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sweep away	past · perfect · passive		the voracious horde	cellar		to garret; away property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme everything=Destination

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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