The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 86

One was bandy-legged and could not run fast enough; the other, who had left the house in haste, one foot shod the other bare, had hurt himself against a big stone and could not walk without difficulty; the third had arrived in time, but in harrying to go in with the others had struck so violently against the wall of the mountain that he fell backwards at the moment it closed upon his comrades.

Who acts: One, one foot, third, foot, mountain · What happens: be, not run, leave, shoe, hurt, not walk · To what, where: house, haste, other bare, foot, wall, moment

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 (One, one foot, third, foot), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 legged	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 legged	cop
3	bandy	bandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 legged	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 bandy	punct
5	legged	legged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 run	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 run	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 run	advmod
9	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 legged	conj
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 run	advmod
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 run	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 other	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 other	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 legged	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 left	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 left	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 left	aux
18	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 other	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 house	det
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 left	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 haste	case
22	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 left	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shod	punct
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 foot	nummod
25	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shod	nsubj
26	shod	shoe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 legged	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bare	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bare	amod
29	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 shod	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hurt	punct
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 hurt	aux
32	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 shod	parataxis
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 hurt	obj
34	against	against	ADP	_	37 stone	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 stone	det
36	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 stone	amod
37	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hurt	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 walk	cc
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 walk	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 walk	advmod
41	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 hurt	conj
42	without	without	ADP	_	43 difficulty	case
43	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 walk	obl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 arrived	punct
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 third	det
46	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	48 arrived	nsubj
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 arrived	aux
48	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 legged	parataxis
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 time	case
50	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 arrived	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 struck	punct
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	62 struck	cc
53	in	in	SCONJ	_	54 harrying	mark
54	harrying	harry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	62 struck	advcl
55	to	to	PART	_	56 go	mark
56	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 harrying	xcomp
57	in	in	ADV	_	56 go	advmod
58	with	with	ADP	_	60 others	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 others	det
60	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 go	obl
61	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 struck	aux
62	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 legged	conj
63	so	so	ADV	_	64 violently	advmod
64	violently	violently	ADV	_	62 struck	advmod
65	against	against	ADP	_	67 wall	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 wall	det
67	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 struck	obl
68	of	of	ADP	_	70 mountain	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 mountain	det
70	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 wall	nmod
71	that	that	SCONJ	_	73 fell	mark
72	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 fell	nsubj
73	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 struck	advcl
74	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	73 fell	advmod
75	at	at	ADP	_	77 moment	case
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 moment	det
77	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 fell	obl
78	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	79 closed	nsubj
79	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	77 moment	acl:relcl
80	upon	upon	ADP	_	82 comrades	case
81	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	82 comrades	nmod:poss
82	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	79 closed	obl
83	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 legged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	One				legged property	tree rules
2	not run	could	One not said here				enough, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	past · perfect		the house	haste			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme in haste=Location
4	shoe	past	one foot	the other bare				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bare=Destination
5	hurt	past · perfect		foot			against a big stone	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Patient
6	not walk	could					without difficulty	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	arrive	past · perfect	the third			time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	harry	gerund						tree rules
9	go in	to-infinitive					with the others	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with other=Beneficiary
10	strike	past · perfect	One not said here		the wall of the mountain		violently property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against wall=Location
11	fall	past	foot			moment	backwards property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	close	past	mountain	the moment not said here			upon foot's comrades	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moment=Patient

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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