The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 71
Thereupon he pulled his hat down over his eyes, went hastily out of the hall, and left the town without speaking to a soul.
Who acts: ratcatcher · What happens: pull down, go, leave, speak · To what, where: hat, eyes, hall, town · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ratcatcher), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 pulled | advmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pulled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 12 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 hall | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hall | det |
| 16 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 left | cc |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 town | det |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | obj |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 speaking | mark |
| 23 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 left | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 soul | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 soul | det |
| 26 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 speaking | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull down | past | ratcatcher | ratcatcher's hat | ratcatcher's eyes | down, thereupon property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme | ||
| 2 | go | past | ratcatcher not said here | the hall | hastily property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out hall=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | leave | past | ratcatcher not said here | the town | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | gerund | ratcatcher not said here | to a soul | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to soul=Co-Agent |
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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