The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 68

But you have been of use to us, and we will not let you go without a recompense,’ and he offered him fifty crowns.

Who acts: you, we, head · What happens: be, not let, go, offer · To what, where: us, you, fifty crowns, ratcatcher

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, we, head), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 use	cc
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 use	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 use	cop
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 use	case
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 us	case
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 use	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 let	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 let	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 let	advmod
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 use	parataxis
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	without	without	ADP	_	19 recompense	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 recompense	det
19	recompense	recompense	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 offered	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 offered	nsubj
24	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 let	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 offered	iobj
26	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 crowns	nummod
27	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 offered	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	you		us	of use	tree rules
2	not let	future	we	you			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	you not said here			without a recompense	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	offer	past	head	fifty crowns	ratcatcher		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal crown=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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