The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 71

So, when the Master-maid asked him what the giant had set him to do that day, he told her that he was to go underground and get the taxes.

Who acts: Master maid, Prince · What happens: ask, set, do, tell, be, get · To what, where: Prince, giant, maid, taxes · 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 (Master maid, Prince), 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 asked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 asked	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maid	det
5	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 maid	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Master	punct
7	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	iobj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 set	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 giant	det
12	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 set	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 set	aux
14	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 asked	ccomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 set	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 set	xcomp
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 go	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 go	cop
27	to	to	PART	_	28 go	mark
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 told	xcomp
29	underground	underground	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 get	cc
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 go	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 taxes	det
33	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 get	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Master maid		Prince			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	set	past · perfect · passive		the giant				tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive				day		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	Prince		maid			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	is not said to happen	past	Prince				go, underground property	tree rules
6	get	infinitive	Prince not said here	the taxes				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tax=Stimulus

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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