--- title: And the inhabitants of Hamel began to go to the dogs (not that _they… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And the inhabitants of Hamel began to go to the dogs (not that _they_ were of much use), when one Friday there arrived in the town a man with a queer face, who played the bagpipes and sang this refrain: Who acts: inhabitants, queer face. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/32/9/) [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/) / 9 # The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 9 And the inhabitants of Hamel began to go to the dogs (not that \_they\_ were of much use), when one Friday there arrived in the town a man with a queer face, who played the bagpipes and sang this refrain: **Who acts:** inhabitants, queer face · **What happens:** begin, go, not be, arrive, play, sing · **To what, where:** dogs, town, bagpipes, refrain 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 (inhabitants, queer face), 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:pg540:32:9 # text = And the inhabitants of Hamel began to go to the dogs (not that _they_ were of much use), when one Friday there arrived in the town a man with a queer face, who played the bagpipes and sang this refrain: 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Hamel Hamel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 15 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 16 punct _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 when when SCONJ WRB _ 28 mark _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 28 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 queer queer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 bagpipes bagpipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 45 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 det _ _ 46 refrain refrain NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the inhabitants of Hamel | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | the inhabitants of Hamel *not said here* | | | | | to the dogs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dog=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **not** **is** | past | inhabitants *= inhabitant* | the dogs *not said here* | | | | of much use | tree rules | | 4 | **arrive** | past | inhabitants *= inhabitant* *not said here* | | | the town; there | friday | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **play** | past | a queer face | the bagpipes | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bagpipe=Theme | | 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | a queer face *not said here* | this refrain | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location refrain=Theme | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/32/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/32/10/) - ↑ back to [The Ratcatcher](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/32/)