The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 72

When the Hamel people heard how the affair had ended they rubbed their hands, and with no more scruple than their Town Counsellor, they laughed over the ratcatcher, who, they said, was caught in his own trap.

Who acts: people, ratcatcher · What happens: end, rub, laugh, say, catch · To what, where: Hamel people, hands, ratcatcher, own trap · 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 (people, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	10 ended	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
3	Hamel	Hamel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 people	compound
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ended	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ended	aux
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 ended	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 affair	det
8	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ended	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ended	aux
10	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 rubbed	advcl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rubbed	nsubj
12	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rubbed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 laughed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 laughed	cc
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 scruple	case
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 scruple	det
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 scruple	amod
20	scruple	scruple	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 laughed	obl
21	than	than	ADP	_	24 Counsellor	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 Counsellor	nmod:poss
23	Town	town	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Counsellor	amod
24	Counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 scruple	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 scruple	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 laughed	nsubj
27	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rubbed	conj
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 ratcatcher	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ratcatcher	det
30	ratcatcher	ratcatcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 laughed	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 said	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 who	punct
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ratcatcher	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 caught	punct
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 caught	aux:pass
38	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 said	ccomp
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 trap	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 trap	nmod:poss
41	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 trap	amod
42	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 caught	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 rubbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	end	past · perfect · passive		the Hamel people			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
2	rub	past	people	people's hands			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	laugh	past	people		the ratcatcher	with no more scruple than people's Town Counsellor	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the ratcatcher				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	catch	past · passive			ratcatcher's own trap		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»

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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