The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 24

“May you soon have a better place, if you have come to serve here!” said she.

Who acts: you, life · What happens: come, serve, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, life), 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	_	13 come	punct
2	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 place	det
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 place	amod
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 come	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 said	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 serve	mark
15	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	advcl
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 serve	advmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · perfect	you		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	serve in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	here	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: express	past	life		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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