--- title: Soon from the bottom of the cellars, the top of the garrets, from un… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Soon from the bottom of the cellars, the top of the garrets, from under all the furniture, from all the nooks and corners of the houses, out come the rats, search for the door, fling themselves into the street, and trip, trip, trip, begin to run in file towards the front of the town hall, so squeeze --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/32/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Ratcatcher](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/32/) / 38 # The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 38 Soon from the bottom of the cellars, the top of the garrets, from under all the furniture, from all the nooks and corners of the houses, out come the rats, search for the door, fling themselves into the street, and trip, trip, trip, begin to run in file towards the front of the town hall, so squeezed together that they covered the pavement like the waves of flooded torrent. **Who acts:** rats · **What happens:** come, search, fling, begin, run, squeeze · **To what, where:** rats, street, file, pavement, flooded torrent 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 (rats), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:32:38 # text = Soon from the bottom of the cellars, the top of the garrets, from under all the furniture, from all the nooks and corners of the houses, out come the rats, search for the door, fling themselves into the street, and trip, trip, trip, begin to run in file towards the front of the town hall, so squeezed together that they covered the pavement like the waves of flooded torrent. 1 Soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cellars cellar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 garrets garret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 under under ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 furniture furniture NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 24 det:predet _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 nooks nook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 appos _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 corners corner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 out out ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 parataxis _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 search search VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 fling fling VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 42 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 41 obj _ _ 43 into into ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 52 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 54 begin begin VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ _ 55 to to PART TO _ 56 mark _ _ 56 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 54 xcomp _ _ 57 in in ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 file file NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ _ 59 towards towards ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ _ 62 of of ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 64 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 compound _ _ 65 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 67 so so ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ _ 68 squeezed squeeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 54 advcl _ _ 69 together together ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ _ 70 that that SCONJ IN _ 72 mark _ _ 71 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 72 nsubj _ _ 72 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 68 advcl _ _ 73 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 74 det _ _ 74 pavement pavement NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 obj _ _ 75 like like ADP IN _ 77 case _ _ 76 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 77 det _ _ 77 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 74 nmod _ _ 78 of of ADP IN _ 80 case _ _ 79 flooded flood VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 80 amod _ _ 80 torrent torrent NOUN NN Number=Sing 77 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 81 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | infinitive | | the rats | | | | out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rat=Theme | | 2 | **search** | infinitive | | | | | | for the door | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for door=Theme | | 3 | **fling** | infinitive | | rats *= rat* | | the street | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme into street=Destination | | 4 | **begin** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **run** | to-infinitive | | | | file | | towards the front of the town hall | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards front=Destination | | 6 | **squeeze** | participle | | | | | | together *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **cover** | past | rats *= rat* | the pavement | | | | like the waves of flooded torrent | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pavement=Destination | | 8 | **flood** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **wave** | | | flooded torrent | | | | | nom wave «event transitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/32/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/32/39/) - ↑ back to [The Ratcatcher](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/32/)