More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 56

This got him in for a regular scrape, and the master when he got back to his wife said: "What has come over the men, they were all right until that laundry-maid of yours came.

Who acts: This, James, master, maid, laundry maid · What happens: get, get back, say, come, be · To what, where: James · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, James, master, maid), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	obj
4	in	in	ADV	_	2 got	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 scrape	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 scrape	det
7	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 scrape	amod
8	scrape	scrape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 master	det
12	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 got	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	advcl
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 got	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 wife	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	parataxis
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 come	nsubj
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 said	parataxis
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 men	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 men	det
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 come	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 right	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 right	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 right	cop
32	all	all	ADV	_	33 right	advmod
33	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 come	parataxis
34	until	until	SCONJ	_	41 came	mark
35	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 maid	det
36	laundry	laundry	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 maid	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 laundry	punct
38	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 came	nsubj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 yours	case
40	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 maid	nmod
41	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 right	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	This	James	for a regular scrape	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme for scrape=Source
2	get back	past	James			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	the master			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	present · perfect			over the men	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over man=Initial_Location
5	is in a quote	past	maid		all, right property	tree rules
6	come in a quote	past	that laundry maid of yours			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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