The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 70
‘If you do not pay me I will be paid by your heirs.’
Who acts: you, heirs · What happens: not pay, pay · To what, where: me, I
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, heirs), 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 pay | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 pay | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 pay | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pay | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 pay | advmod |
| 6 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 pay | iobj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 paid | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 paid | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 paid | aux:pass |
| 11 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 pay | parataxis |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 heirs | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heirs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heirs | heir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 paid | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pay | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pay | present · do-support | you | me | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Asset | ||||
| 2 | pay | future · passive | your heirs | I | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset |
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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