The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 69
‘Keep your recompense for yourself,’ replied the ratcatcher proudly.
Who acts: your · What happens: keep, reply, recompense · To what, where: recompense, ratcatcher · 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 (your), 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 | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 2 | Keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 recompense | nmod:poss |
| 4 | recompense | recompense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Keep | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 yourself | case |
| 6 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Keep | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ratcatcher | det |
| 11 | ratcatcher | ratcatcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 9 replied | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | infinitive | your recompense | for yourself | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recompense=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the ratcatcher | proudly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | recompense | your | nom recompense «possession transitive»: poss=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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