The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 70

“Well, however easy a master you may be, you set me very hard work to do,” thought the Prince; “but I will see if I cannot find your Master-maid; you say she is yours, but for all that she may be able to tell me what to do now,” and he went back to her.

Who acts: you, Prince, maid, all · What happens: set, do, think, see, not find, say · To what, where: Prince, Master maid, yours, maid · 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, Prince, maid, all), 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	_	22 thought	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 easy	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	5 easy	advmod
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 set	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 master	det
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 easy	nsubj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 be	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 be	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 master	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 set	nsubj
13	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 thought	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 set	obj
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 hard	advmod
16	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 work	amod
17	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 set	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Prince	det
24	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 thought	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 see	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 thought	conj
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 find	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 find	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 find	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 find	advmod
35	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 see	advcl
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 maid	nmod:poss
37	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 maid	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Master	punct
39	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 find	obj
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 say	punct
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 say	nsubj
42	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 thought	parataxis
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 yours	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 yours	cop
45	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 say	ccomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 able	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 able	cc
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 all	case
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 able	nsubj
50	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 all	obj
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 able	nsubj
52	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 able	aux
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 able	cop
54	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 say	ccomp
55	to	to	PART	_	56 tell	mark
56	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 able	xcomp
57	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 tell	iobj
58	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	60 do	obj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 do	mark
60	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 tell	ccomp
61	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	60 do	advmod
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 say	punct
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 went	cc
65	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 went	nsubj
66	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thought	conj
67	back	back	ADV	_	66 went	advmod
68	to	to	ADP	_	69 her	case
69	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 went	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	set in a quote	present	you	the Prince = prince				vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent i=Theme work=Destination
2	do in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	the Prince					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	see in a quote	future	the Prince = prince					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	the Prince = prince	your Master maid				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Topic
6	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is a in a quote	present	maid	yours				tree rules
8	is in a quote	may	all				able property	tree rules
9	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	all not said here		the Prince = prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
10	do not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive				now		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
11	go back	past	Prince		maid			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to she=Result

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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