The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 20

He said: ‘Sorcerer or no, if this bagpiper speaks the truth, it was he who sent us this horrible vermin that he wants to rid us of to-day for money.

Who acts: sorcerer, bagpiper · What happens: say, speak, be, want, rid · To what, where: truth, us · 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 (sorcerer, bagpiper), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Sorcerer	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 Sorcerer	punct
5	Sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 no	cc
7	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 Sorcerer	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 speaks	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 speaks	mark
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 bagpiper	det
11	bagpiper	bagpiper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speaks	nsubj
12	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Sorcerer	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 truth	det
14	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speaks	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sent	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sent	cop
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sent	nsubj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 sent	nsubj
20	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
21	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 sent	obj
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 vermin	det
23	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 vermin	amod
24	vermin	vermin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sent	obj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 wants	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wants	nsubj
27	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sent	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 rid	mark
29	rid	rid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wants	xcomp
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 rid	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 day	case
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 day	case
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 to	punct
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rid	obl
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 money	case
36	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rid	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	sorcerer				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen	present	this bagpiper	the truth			tree rules
3	is	past	bagpiper			send property	tree rules
4	want	present	sorcerer				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	rid not said to happen	to-infinitive	sorcerer not said here	us	day	for money	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Source

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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