The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 34

So he did what the Princess had taught him, turned the pitchfork round, and worked with the handle, and in the twinkling of an eye the stable was as clean as if it had been scoured.

Who acts: giant, stable · What happens: do, teach, turn, work, be, scour · To what, where: Princess, giant, pitchfork, twinkling, stable

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, stable), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 taught	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 taught	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 taught	aux
8	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 taught	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct
11	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pitchfork	det
13	pitchfork	pitchfork	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obj
14	round	round	ADV	_	11 turned	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 worked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 worked	cc
17	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 handle	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 handle	det
20	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 worked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 clean	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 clean	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 twinkling	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 twinkling	det
25	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 clean	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 eye	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 eye	det
28	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 twinkling	nmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stable	det
30	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 clean	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 clean	cop
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 clean	advmod
33	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 worked	parataxis
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 scoured	mark
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 scoured	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 scoured	nsubj:pass
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 scoured	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 scoured	aux:pass
39	scoured	scour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 clean	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	giant					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the Princess	giant			tree rules
3	turn	past	giant not said here	the pitchfork			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pitchfork=Theme
4	work	past	giant not said here				with the handle	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with handle=Co-Agent
5	is	past	the stable			the twinkling of a eye	clean property	tree rules
6	scour	past · perfect · passive		stable				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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