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title: And hop! hop! without hesitating, the rats took the leap, swam strai… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And hop! hop! without hesitating, the rats took the leap, swam straight to the funnel, plunged in head foremost and disappeared. Who acts: you, rats. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 42

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And hop! hop! without hesitating, the rats took the leap, swam straight to the funnel, plunged in head foremost and disappeared.

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**Who acts:** you, rats · **What happens:** hop, hesitate, take, swim, plunge · **To what, where:** hop, leap, funnel

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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 (you, rats), 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:pg540:32:42
# text = And hop! hop! without hesitating, the rats took the leap, swam straight to the funnel, plunged in head foremost and disappeared.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	hop	hop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
4	hop	hop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	hesitating	hesitate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	funnel	funnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	foremost	foremost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	disappeared	disappeared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hop** | imperative | you *not said here* | hop |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hop=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hesitate** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | past | the rats | the leap |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Theme |
| 4 | **swim** | past | the rats *not said here* | the funnel |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme funnel=Trajectory |
| 5 | **plunge** | participle |  | the funnel *not said here* |  |  |  | in head | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in head=Attribute |

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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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