The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 95

“Master-maid?” said the Prince; “yesterday my master talked about this Master-maid, and to-day he is talking about her again, and the first day of all it was talk of the same kind.

Who acts: Prince, master, first day · What happens: say, talk, be · To what, where: talk · 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, master, first day), 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	_	4 maid	punct
2	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maid	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Master	punct
4	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 maid	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 maid	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 talked	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 talked	punct
12	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 “	obl:unmarked
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 master	nmod:poss
14	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 talked	nsubj
15	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	20 maid	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 maid	det
18	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 maid	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Master	punct
20	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 talked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 talking	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 talking	cc
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 day	case
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 to	punct
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 talking	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 talking	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 talking	aux
28	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 talked	parataxis
29	about	about	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 talking	obl
31	again	again	ADV	_	28 talking	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 talk	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 talk	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 day	det
35	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 day	amod
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 talk	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 all	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 day	nmod
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 talk	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 talk	cop
41	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 talking	parataxis
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 kind	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 kind	det
44	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 kind	amod
45	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 talk	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	talk in a quote	past	my master			about this Master maid	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about maid=Topic
3	talk in a quote	present · progressive	Prince		again; day	about maid	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about she=Topic
4	is a in a quote	past	the first day of all	talk		of the same kind	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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