The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 57

‘All your rats took a jump into the river yesterday,’ said he to the counsellors, ‘and I guarantee that not one of them comes back.

Who acts: rats, river, I, one · What happens: take, say, guarantee, come back · To what, where: jump, river · 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 (rats, river, I, one), 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	_	5 took	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 rats	det:predet
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 rats	nmod:poss
4	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 jump	det
7	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jump	nmod
11	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jump	nmod:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 counsellors	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 counsellors	det
18	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ‘	punct
20	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 counsellors	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 guarantee	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 guarantee	nsubj
23	guarantee	guarantee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 comes	mark
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 one	advmod
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 comes	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 one	nmod
29	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 guarantee	advcl
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 comes	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	your rats	a jump yesterday	the river		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jump=Theme into river=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	river			to the counsellors and ‘	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to counsellor=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	guarantee	present	I				vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
4	come back	present	one of rats				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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