The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 17

The stranger sent word to the counsellors that, if they would make it worth his while, he would rid them of all their rats before night, down to the very last.

Who acts: stranger, counsellors · What happens: send, make, rid · To what, where: word, counsellors

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 (stranger, counsellors), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 counsellors	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 counsellors	det
7	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 counsellors	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 make	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	obj
15	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 make	xcomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 while	nmod:poss
17	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rid	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 rid	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 rid	aux
21	rid	rid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 make	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 rid	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 rats	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 rats	det:predet
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 rats	nmod:poss
26	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rid	obl
27	before	before	ADP	_	28 night	case
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rid	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 down	punct
30	down	down	ADV	_	21 rid	parataxis
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 last	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 last	det
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 last	advmod
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 down	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the stranger	word	the counsellors			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to counsellor=Destination
2	make a condition, not said to happen	would	counsellors = counsellor	word		while	worth property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	rid	would	stranger	counsellors = counsellor		night	of counsellors's rats	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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: «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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