The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 29
To work; the rats will be paid one _gros_ a head as you ask.’
Who acts: you · What happens: work, pay, ask · To what, where: rats
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 (you), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 work | mark |
| 2 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 paid | advcl |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 work | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rats | det |
| 5 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 paid | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 paid | aux:pass |
| 8 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 paid | obj |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 gros | punct |
| 11 | gros | gros | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 one | conj |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 paid | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 head | det |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paid | obj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 ask | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 ask | nsubj |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 paid | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 paid | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | to-infinitive | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | pay | future · passive | the rats | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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