The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 83

Then the stranger had begun to walk quickly, and they had followed, running, singing and dancing to the sound of the music, as far as the foot of the mountain which one sees on entering Hamel.

Who acts: stranger, one · What happens: begin, walk, follow, run, sing, dance · To what, where: boys, sound, foot, Hamel

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 (stranger, one), 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	5 begun	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stranger	det
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begun	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 begun	aux
5	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 walk	mark
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 begun	xcomp
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 walk	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 followed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 followed	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 followed	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 followed	aux
13	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 begun	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 running	punct
15	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 followed	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 singing	punct
17	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 running	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dancing	cc
19	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 running	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 sound	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sound	det
22	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dancing	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 music	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 music	det
25	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sound	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 foot	punct
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 far	advmod
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 foot	advmod
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 foot	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 foot	det
31	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 running	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 mountain	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mountain	det
34	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 foot	nmod
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 sees	obj
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sees	nsubj
37	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 foot	acl:relcl
38	on	on	SCONJ	_	39 entering	mark
39	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 sees	advcl
40	Hamel	Hamel	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 entering	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 begun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past · perfect	the stranger				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	walk	to-infinitive	the stranger not said here					quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	follow	past · perfect · passive		boys = boy					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	run	gerund						as the foot of the mountain	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sing speech: express	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	dance	gerund				the sound of the music			vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to sound=Trajectory
7	see	present	one	the foot of the mountain					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
8	enter	gerund	one not said here		Hamel				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hamel=Destination

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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