The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 73

But what made them laugh above all was his threat of getting himself paid by their heirs.

Who acts: hand, threat, ratcatcher · What happens: make, laugh, be, get, pay · To what, where: hand, threat, 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 (hand, threat, ratcatcher), 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	_	3 made	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
6	above	above	ADP	_	10 threat	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 threat	det
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 threat	cop
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 threat	nmod:poss
10	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laugh	obl
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 getting	mark
12	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 threat	acl
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 getting	obj
14	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 getting	xcomp
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 heirs	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 heirs	nmod:poss
17	heirs	heir	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 paid	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past		hand			tree rules
2	laugh	infinitive	hand not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past			ratcatcher's threat		tree rules
4	get	gerund	ratcatcher's threat not said here	ratcatcher			tree rules
5	pay	participle	ratcatcher not said here			by hand's heirs	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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