The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 9

And the inhabitants of Hamel began to go to the dogs (not that _they_ were of much use), when one Friday there arrived in the town a man with a queer face, who played the bagpipes and sang this refrain:

Who acts: inhabitants, queer face · What happens: begin, go, not be, arrive, play, sing · To what, where: dogs, town, bagpipes, refrain

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 (inhabitants, queer face), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 began	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 inhabitants	det
3	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 began	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Hamel	case
5	Hamel	Hamel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 inhabitants	nmod
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 dogs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dogs	det
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 go	obl
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 use	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 use	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 use	mark
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 that	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 use	nsubj
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 they	punct
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 use	cop
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 use	case
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 use	amod
21	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dogs	acl:relcl
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 use	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 arrived	punct
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 arrived	mark
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 Friday	nummod
26	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 arrived	obl:unmarked
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 arrived	advmod
28	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 use	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 town	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 town	det
31	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 arrived	obl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 town	appos
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 face	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 face	det
36	queer	queer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 face	amod
37	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 man	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 played	punct
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 played	nsubj
40	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 face	acl:relcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 bagpipes	det
42	bagpipes	bagpipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 played	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 sang	cc
44	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 played	conj
45	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 refrain	det
46	refrain	refrain	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sang	obj
47	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the inhabitants of Hamel					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	go	to-infinitive	the inhabitants of Hamel not said here				to the dogs	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dog=Initial_Location
3	not is	past	inhabitants = inhabitant	the dogs not said here			of much use	tree rules
4	arrive	past	inhabitants = inhabitant not said here		the town; there	friday		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	play	past	a queer face	the bagpipes				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bagpipe=Theme
6	sing speech: express	past	a queer face not said here	this refrain				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location refrain=Theme

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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