More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 27

And pray what might you be willing to pay me, if I rid you of every single rat in Franchville?"

Who acts: you, I · What happens: pray, be, pay, rid · To what, where: me, you

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 pray	cc
2	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 willing	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 willing	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 willing	nsubj
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 willing	cop
7	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pray	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pay	mark
9	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 willing	xcomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 pay	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rid	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 rid	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 rid	nsubj
14	rid	rid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 willing	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 rid	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 rat	case
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 rat	det
18	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rat	amod
19	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rid	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 Franchville	case
21	Franchville	Franchville	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 rat	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 pray	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 pray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pray	imperative	you not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	might				willing property	tree rules
3	pay	to-infinitive			me		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Asset
4	rid a condition, not said to happen	past	I	you		of every single rat in Franchville	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Source of rat=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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