The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 38

Soon from the bottom of the cellars, the top of the garrets, from under all the furniture, from all the nooks and corners of the houses, out come the rats, search for the door, fling themselves into the street, and trip, trip, trip, begin to run in file towards the front of the town hall, so squeezed together that they covered the pavement like the waves of flooded torrent.

Who acts: rats · What happens: come, search, fling, begin, run, squeeze · To what, where: rats, street, file, pavement, flooded torrent

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 (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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 bottom	advmod
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 bottom	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bottom	det
4	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cellars	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cellars	det
7	cellars	cellar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bottom	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 top	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 top	det
10	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cellars	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 garrets	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 garrets	det
13	garrets	garret	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 top	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 furniture	punct
15	from	from	ADP	_	19 furniture	case
16	under	under	ADP	_	19 furniture	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 furniture	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 furniture	det
19	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bottom	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 nooks	punct
21	from	from	ADP	_	24 nooks	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 nooks	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 nooks	det
24	nooks	nook	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 furniture	appos
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 corners	cc
26	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 nooks	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 houses	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 houses	det
29	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 corners	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
31	out	out	ADV	_	32 come	advmod
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 nooks	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rats	det
34	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 come	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 search	punct
36	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 come	conj
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 door	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 door	det
39	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 search	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 fling	punct
41	fling	fling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 come	conj
42	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 fling	obj
43	into	into	ADP	_	45 street	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 street	det
45	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fling	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 trip	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 trip	cc
48	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fling	parataxis
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 trip	punct
50	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 trip	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 trip	punct
52	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 trip	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 begin	punct
54	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 come	parataxis
55	to	to	PART	_	56 run	mark
56	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 begin	xcomp
57	in	in	ADP	_	58 file	case
58	file	file	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 run	obl
59	towards	towards	ADP	_	61 front	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 front	det
61	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 run	obl
62	of	of	ADP	_	65 hall	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 hall	det
64	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 hall	compound
65	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 front	nmod
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 squeezed	punct
67	so	so	ADV	_	68 squeezed	advmod
68	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 begin	advcl
69	together	together	ADV	_	68 squeezed	advmod
70	that	that	SCONJ	_	72 covered	mark
71	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 covered	nsubj
72	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 squeezed	advcl
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 pavement	det
74	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 covered	obj
75	like	like	ADP	_	77 waves	case
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 waves	det
77	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	74 pavement	nmod
78	of	of	ADP	_	80 torrent	case
79	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	80 torrent	amod
80	torrent	torrent	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 waves	nmod
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bottom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive		the rats		out property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rat=Theme
2	search	infinitive				for the door	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for door=Theme
3	fling	infinitive		rats = rat	the street		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme into street=Destination
4	begin	infinitive					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	run	to-infinitive			file	towards the front of the town hall	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards front=Destination
6	squeeze	participle				together property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
7	cover	past	rats = rat	the pavement		like the waves of flooded torrent	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pavement=Destination
8	flood	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	wave			flooded torrent			nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient

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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