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title: There they found the ratcatcher playing his bagpipes at the same spo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There they found the ratcatcher playing his bagpipes at the same spot as the evening before. Who acts: boys, ratcatcher. 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 82

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There they found the ratcatcher playing his bagpipes at the same spot as the evening before.

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**Who acts:** boys, ratcatcher · **What happens:** find, play · **To what, where:** ratcatcher, bagpipes, same spot

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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 (boys, ratcatcher), 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:pg540:32:82
# text = There they found the ratcatcher playing his bagpipes at the same spot as the evening before.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ratcatcher	ratcatcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bagpipes	bagpipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	before	before	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | boys *= boy* | the ratcatcher |  | there |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ratcatcher=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | the ratcatcher *not said here* | ratcatcher's bagpipes |  | the same spot | evening | before *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bagpipe=Theme |

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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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