The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 46

“Yes, indeed, you are a kind master,” said the Prince; “but I will go in and talk to the Master-maid again; perhaps before long she may like better to be mine than yours.”

Who acts: you, kind master, maid · What happens: be, say, go in, talk, like · To what, where: kind master · 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, kind master, maid), 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	_	10 master	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 master	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 Yes	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 master	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 master	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 master	det
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 master	amod
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 master	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 master	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Prince	det
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 go	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
22	in	in	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 talk	cc
24	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	29 maid	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 maid	det
27	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 maid	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Master	punct
29	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 talk	obl
30	again	again	ADV	_	24 talk	advmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 like	punct
32	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	33 before	advmod
33	before	before	ADV	_	34 long	advmod
34	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 like	advmod
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 like	nsubj
36	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 like	aux
37	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	parataxis
38	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 mine	amod
39	to	to	PART	_	41 mine	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 mine	cop
41	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 like	obj
42	than	than	ADP	_	43 yours	case
43	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 mine	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 like	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	you	a kind master			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a kind master				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in in a quote	future	a kind master = master				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	talk in a quote	infinitive	a kind master = master not said here		again	to the Master maid	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to maid=Co-Agent
5	like in a quote	may	maid			long property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		a kind master = master		than yours	tree rules

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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