The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 25

‘Before night,’ said he, ‘I shall have despatched all the rats in Hamel if you will but pay me a _gros_ a head.’

Who acts: stranger, I · What happens: say, despatch, pay · To what, where: rats, Hamel, gros, me · 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 (stranger, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
2	Before	before	ADP	_	3 night	case
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 despatched	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 despatched	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 despatched	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 despatched	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 despatched	aux
13	despatched	despatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 rats	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rats	det
16	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 despatched	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Hamel	case
18	Hamel	Hamel	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 rats	nmod
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 will	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 will	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 despatched	advcl
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 pay	cc
23	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 despatched	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 pay	iobj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 gros	det
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 gros	punct
27	gros	gros	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pay	obj
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 head	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 head	det
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pay	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	stranger					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	despatch	shall · perfect	I	all rats		Hamel		tree rules
3	pay	infinitive	I not said here	a gros	me		a head obl	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient gros=Asset

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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