--- title: When the Hamel people heard how the affair had ended they rubbed the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the Hamel people heard how the affair had ended they rubbed their hands, and with no more scruple than their Town Counsellor, they laughed over the ratcatcher, who, they said, was caught in his own trap. Who acts: people, ratcatcher. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/32/72/) [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/) / 72 # The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 72 When the Hamel people heard how the affair had ended they rubbed their hands, and with no more scruple than their Town Counsellor, they laughed over the ratcatcher, who, they said, was caught in his own trap. **Who acts:** people, ratcatcher · **What happens:** end, rub, laugh, say, catch · **To what, where:** Hamel people, hands, ratcatcher, own trap · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, ratcatcher), 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:pg540:32:72 # text = When the Hamel people heard how the affair had ended they rubbed their hands, and with no more scruple than their Town Counsellor, they laughed over the ratcatcher, who, they said, was caught in his own trap. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Hamel Hamel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 5 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 affair affair NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 ended end VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 rubbed rub VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 19 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ _ 20 scruple scruple NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 Town town ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Counsellor counsellor NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 28 over over ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ratcatcher ratcatcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 ccomp _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **end** | past · perfect · passive | | the Hamel people | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **rub** | past | people | people's hands | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 3 | **laugh** | past | people | | | the ratcatcher | | with no more scruple than people's Town Counsellor | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the ratcatcher | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **catch** | past · passive | | | | ratcatcher's own trap | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» | 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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/32/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/32/73/) - ↑ back to [The Ratcatcher](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/32/)