The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 42
And hop! hop! without hesitating, the rats took the leap, swam straight to the funnel, plunged in head foremost and disappeared.
Who acts: you, rats · What happens: hop, hesitate, take, swim, plunge · To what, where: hop, leap, funnel
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 (you, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 hop | cc |
| 2 | hop | hop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 hop | punct |
| 4 | hop | hop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hop | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 hop | punct |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 hesitating | mark |
| 7 | hesitating | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hop | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rats | det |
| 10 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hop | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 leap | det |
| 13 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swam | punct |
| 15 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 16 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 19 funnel | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 funnel | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 funnel | det |
| 19 | funnel | funnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 swam | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 plunged | punct |
| 21 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 funnel | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 plunged | obl |
| 24 | foremost | foremost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 head | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 disappeared | cc |
| 26 | disappeared | disappeared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 foremost | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | imperative | you not said here | hop | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hop=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | hesitate | gerund | you not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | past | the rats | the leap | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Theme | ||||
| 4 | swim | past | the rats not said here | the funnel | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme funnel=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | plunge | participle | the funnel not said here | in head | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in head=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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