The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 77
So he set out on his way, and did exactly what the Master-maid had told him.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: set out, do, tell · To what, where: way, Master maid, Prince · 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 (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 | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 did | cc |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 11 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 12 what | advmod |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 told | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maid | det |
| 14 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 maid | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Master | punct |
| 16 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 told | aux |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 did | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | iobj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Prince | Prince's way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the Master maid | Prince | tree rules |
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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