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title: When dressing in the morning they found them in their breeches and p… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When dressing in the morning they found them in their breeches and petticoats, in their pockets and in their boots; and when they wanted a morsel to eat, the voracious horde had swept away everything from cellar to garret. Who acts: people, morsel. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 3

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When dressing in the morning they found them in their breeches and petticoats, in their pockets and in their boots; and when they wanted a morsel to eat, the voracious horde had swept away everything from cellar to garret.

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**Who acts:** people, morsel · **What happens:** dress, find, want, eat, sweep away · **To what, where:** bands, breeches, morsel, voracious horde, cellar

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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, morsel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:32:3
# text = When dressing in the morning they found them in their breeches and petticoats, in their pockets and in their boots; and when they wanted a morsel to eat, the voracious horde had swept away everything from cellar to garret.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	dressing	dress	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	breeches	breech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	voracious	voracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	horde	horde	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	swept	sweep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
37	away	away	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	36	obj	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	garret	garret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | past | people | bands *= band* |  | people's breeches and petticoats |  | in people's pockets and people's boots | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 3 | **want** | past | people | a morsel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a morsel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sweep away** | past · perfect · passive |  | the voracious horde |  | cellar |  | to garret; away *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme everything=Destination |

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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.

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**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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