The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 74

“Oh! yes, I will soon tell you that; you must go to the rock there under the mountain-ridge, and take the club that is there, and knock on the rocky wall,” said the Master-maid.

Who acts: I, you, club, Master maid · What happens: tell, go, take, be, knock, say · To what, where: you, mountain ridge, club, rocky wall · 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 (I, you, club, 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 tell	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 tell	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Oh	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 tell	advmod
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 said	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 you	nmod:unmarked
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 rock	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rock	det
18	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 go	advmod
20	under	under	ADP	_	24 ridge	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ridge	det
22	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ridge	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 mountain	punct
24	ridge	ridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 take	cc
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 club	det
29	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 there	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 there	cop
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 club	acl:relcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 knock	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 knock	cc
35	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	conj
36	on	on	ADP	_	39 wall	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wall	det
38	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 wall	amod
39	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 knock	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
42	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 maid	det
44	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 maid	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 Master	punct
46	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 said	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	I		you		soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	must	you			the mountain ridge; there	to the rock	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location
3	take in a quote	infinitive		the club				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	the club				there property	tree rules
5	knock in a quote	infinitive	I not said here			the rocky wall		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Location
6	say speech: assert	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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