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title: And everywhere, in the ceilings, in the floors, in the cupboards, at… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And everywhere, in the ceilings, in the floors, in the cupboards, at the doors, there was a chase and a rummage, and so furious a noise of gimlets, pincers, and saws, that a deaf man could not have rested for one hour together. Who acts: furious noise, gimlets. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 6

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And everywhere, in the ceilings, in the floors, in the cupboards, at the doors, there was a chase and a rummage, and so furious a noise of gimlets, pincers, and saws, that a deaf man could not have rested for one hour together.

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**Who acts:** furious noise, gimlets · **What happens:** be, not rest, noise · **To what, where:** deaf man

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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 (furious noise, gimlets), 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:pg540:32:6
# text = And everywhere, in the ceilings, in the floors, in the cupboards, at the doors, there was a chase and a rummage, and so furious a noise of gimlets, pincers, and saws, that a deaf man could not have rested for one hour together.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ceilings	ceiling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rummage	rummage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	gimlets	gimlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	pincers	pincer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	saws	saw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
47	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	aux	_	_
48	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	nummod	_	_
51	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
52	together	together	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | everywhere, furious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **rest** | could · perfect · passive | a furious noise of gimlets and pincers and saws *not said here* | a deaf man |  |  | hour | together *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **noise** |  | gimlets and pincers |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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