The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 65

‘The heads!’ cried he, ‘if you care about them, go and find them in the river.’

Who acts: heads, you · What happens: cry, care, go, find · To what, where: ratcatcher, eyes, 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 (heads, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heads	det
3	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 heads	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 heads	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 care	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 care	nsubj
12	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 go	advcl
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 care	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 care	punct
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 find	cc
18	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 go	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 river	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 river	det
22	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the heads	ratcatcher			tree rules
2	care a condition, not said to happen	present	you			about eyes = eye	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about they=Stimulus
3	go	infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	infinitive		eyes = eye	the river		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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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