The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 53

Then the old white rat sprang in his turn into the river, swam to the whirlpool and disappeared.

Who acts: old white rat · What happens: spring, swim, disappear · To what, where: turn, whirlpool

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 (old white rat), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sprang	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rat	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rat	amod
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rat	amod
5	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sprang	nsubj
6	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 turn	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 turn	nmod:poss
9	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sprang	obl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sprang	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swam	punct
14	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sprang	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 whirlpool	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 whirlpool	det
17	whirlpool	whirlpool	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 swam	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 disappeared	cc
19	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 swam	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past	the old white rat	Blanchet's turn	then	into the river	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into river=Destination
2	swim	past	the old white rat not said here	the whirlpool			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to whirlpool=Destination
3	disappear	past	the old white rat not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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