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The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 88

They ran with pikes and mattocks to the mountain, and searched till evening to find the opening by which their children had disappeared, without being able to find it.

Who acts: parents, children · What happens: run, search, find, disappear, be · To what, where: opening

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 (parents, children), 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

nsubjcaseoblccconjcasedetoblpunctccconjcaseoblmarkadvcldetobjcaseoblnmod:possnsubjauxacl:relclpunctmarkcopconjmarkxcompobjpunctrootTheyPRONranVERBwithADPpikesNOUNandCCONJmattocksNOUNtoADPtheDETmountainNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJsearchedVERBtillADPeveningNOUNtoPARTfindVERBtheDETopeningNOUNbyADPwhichPRONtheirPRONchildrenNOUNhadAUXdisappearedVERB,PUNCTwithoutSCONJbeingAUXableADJtoPARTfindVERBitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 rannsubj
2ranrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3withwithADP_4 pikescase
4pikespikeNOUNNumber=Plur2 ranobl
5andandCCONJ_6 mattockscc
6mattocksmattockNOUNNumber=Plur4 pikesconj
7totoADP_9 mountaincase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 mountaindet
9mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing2 ranobl
10,,PUNCT_12 searchedpunct
11andandCCONJ_12 searchedcc
12searchedsearchVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 ranconj
13tilltillADP_14 eveningcase
14eveningeveningNOUNNumber=Sing12 searchedobl
15totoPART_16 findmark
16findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf12 searchedadvcl
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 openingdet
18openingopeningNOUNNumber=Sing16 findobj
19bybyADP_20 whichcase
20whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel24 disappearedobl
21theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 childrennmod:poss
22childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur24 disappearednsubj
23hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 disappearedaux
24disappeareddisappearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part18 openingacl:relcl
25,,PUNCT_28 ablepunct
26withoutwithoutSCONJ_28 ablemark
27beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part28 ablecop
28ableableADJDegree=Pos24 disappearedconj
29totoPART_30 findmark
30findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf28 ablexcomp
31ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 findobj
32..PUNCT_2 ranpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1runpastparents = parentwith pikes and mattocks; to the mountain resultvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mountain=Result
2searchpastparents = parent not said hereeveningvn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3findto-infinitiveparents = parent not said herethe openingvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opening=Topic
4disappearpast · perfectparents's childrenby the openingvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5isgerundparents's children not said hereable propertytree rules
6findto-infinitiveparents's children not said hereopeningvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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