The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 54

“Yes, but it is not so easy a thing as you think to ride the horse home,” said the Master-maid; “but I will teach you what to do.

Who acts: you, Master maid · What happens: not be, think, ride, say, teach, do · To what, where: horse, you · 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	_	9 easy	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 easy	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 easy	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 easy	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 easy	expl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 easy	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 easy	advmod
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 easy	advmod
9	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 thing	det
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 easy	conj
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 think	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 think	nsubj
14	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 easy	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 ride	mark
16	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 think	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 horse	det
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ride	obj
19	home	home	ADV	_	16 ride	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 easy	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 easy	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 maid	det
24	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 maid	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Master	punct
26	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 teach	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 teach	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 teach	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 teach	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 teach	aux
32	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 teach	iobj
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 do	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 do	mark
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 teach	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present				easy property	tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	present	you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	ride in a quote	to-infinitive		the horse		home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the Master maid				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	teach speech: other in a quote	future	the Master maid = maid		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
6	do in a quote	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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