The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 38
“Yes, now it is clean and sweet, master,” said the King’s son.
Who acts: stable, son · What happens: be, 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 (stable, son), 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 | _ | 7 clean | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 clean | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 clean | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 clean | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 clean | cop |
| 7 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sweet | cc |
| 9 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clean | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 master | punct |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clean | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 clean | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 clean | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 King | case |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | stable | now | clean property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | stable not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the King's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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