The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 41

‘Hop! hop!’ he cried, pointing with his finger to the middle of the stream, where the water whirled and was drawn down as if through a funnel.

Who acts: river, water · What happens: cry, point, whirl, draw down · To what, where: Hop hop, middle

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 (river, water), 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	_	4 hop	punct
2	Hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hop	compound
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hop	punct
4	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obl
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 hop	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 hop	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pointing	punct
10	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 cried	advcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 finger	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 finger	nmod:poss
13	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pointing	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 middle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 middle	det
16	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pointing	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 stream	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stream	det
19	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 middle	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 whirled	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 whirled	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 water	det
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 whirled	nsubj
24	whirled	whirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stream	acl:relcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 drawn	cc
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 drawn	aux:pass
27	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 whirled	conj
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 drawn	compound:prt
29	as	as	ADP	_	33 funnel	case
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 funnel	mark
31	through	through	ADP	_	33 funnel	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 funnel	det
33	funnel	funnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drawn	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	river	Hop hop			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	point	gerund	river not said here		the middle of the stream	with river's finger	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to middle=Recipient
3	whirl	past	the water				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	draw down	past · passive	the water not said here			as a funnel	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as funnel=Attribute

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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