The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 51
“Well, how do you mean to set about it?” asked the Master-maid.
Who acts: you, Master maid · What happens: mean, set, ask · 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, 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 | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 mean | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 mean | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mean | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 mean | nsubj |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 set | mark |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 mean | xcomp |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 set | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 maid | det |
| 16 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 maid | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Master | punct |
| 18 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | set not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | about side | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Master maid | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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