The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 32

But when evening was drawing near she said that it would now be better for him to clean out the stable before the giant came home.

Who acts: many, it, giant · What happens: draw, say, be, clean out, come · To what, where: stable · 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 (many, it, giant), 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	_	8 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 drawing	advmod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drawing	compound
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drawing	aux
5	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 said	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 better	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 better	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 better	aux
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 better	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 better	cop
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 said	parataxis
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 clean	mark
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 clean	nsubj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 clean	mark
18	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 better	csubj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 clean	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stable	det
21	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 clean	obj
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 came	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 giant	det
24	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 clean	advcl
26	home	home	ADV	_	25 came	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past · progressive	many not said here				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	many				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	it		now	good property	tree rules
4	clean out	to-infinitive	giant	the stable			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stable=Patient
5	come	past	the giant			home property	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: «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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