The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 33

When he got there he had a fancy to try if what she had said were true, so he began to work in the same way that he had seen the stable-boys doing in his father’s stables, but he soon saw that he must give up that, for when he had worked a very short time he had scarcely any room left to stand.

Who acts: giant, many, stable boys, room · What happens: get, have, try, say, be, begin · To what, where: fancy, stable boys, stables, that, room · 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 (giant, many, stable boys, room), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fancy	det
8	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 try	mark
10	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fancy	acl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 what	mark
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 try	obj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	aux
15	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 what	acl:relcl
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 true	cop
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 began	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 work	mark
23	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 way	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 way	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 way	amod
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 work	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 seen	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seen	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 seen	aux
31	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 way	acl:relcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 boys	det
33	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 boys	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 stable	punct
35	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 seen	obj
36	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 boys	acl
37	in	in	ADP	_	41 stables	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 father	nmod:poss
39	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stables	nmod:poss
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 father	case
41	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 doing	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 saw	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 saw	cc
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 saw	nsubj
45	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 saw	advmod
46	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 give	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 give	nsubj
49	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 give	aux
50	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 saw	ccomp
51	up	up	ADP	_	50 give	compound:prt
52	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 give	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 worked	punct
54	for	for	SCONJ	_	58 worked	mark
55	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	58 worked	advmod
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 worked	nsubj
57	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 worked	aux
58	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 give	advcl
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 time	det
60	very	very	ADV	_	61 short	advmod
61	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 time	amod
62	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 worked	obl:unmarked
63	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 had	nsubj
64	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 time	acl:relcl
65	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	67 room	advmod
66	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	67 room	det
67	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 had	obj
68	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	67 room	acl
69	to	to	PART	_	70 stand	mark
70	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	68 left	xcomp
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	giant		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	past	giant	a fancy				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient
3	try	to-infinitive	giant not said here	a fancy				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past · perfect	many					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	many not said here				true property	tree rules
6	begin	past	giant					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	work	to-infinitive	giant not said here				in the same way	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=Theme
8	see	past · perfect	giant	the stable boys				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
9	do	gerund	the stable boys not said here		giant's father's stables			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	see	past	giant				soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	give up	must	giant	that				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Source
12	work	past · perfect	giant			time		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
13	have	past	giant	any room				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
14	leave	participle		any room not said here				tree rules
15	stand	to-infinitive	any room not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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 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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