The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 72
“And how will you set about that?” said the Master-maid.
Who acts: you, Master maid · What happens: set, say · 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 | _ | 6 set | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 set | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 set | advmod |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 set | nsubj |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 set | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maid | det |
| 13 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maid | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Master | punct |
| 15 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set in a quote | future | you | about that | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about that=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Master maid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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