The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 11

Then the giant began to sit up and rub his eyes, but he could not see who it was who had spoken to him, so he asked for the Master-maid, and called her.

Who acts: giant · What happens: begin, sit up, rub, not see, speak, ask · To what, where: eyes, giant, maid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sit	mark
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 sit	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rub	cc
9	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sit	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eyes	nmod:poss
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rub	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 see	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 see	advmod
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	conj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 spoken	nsubj:pass
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 spoken	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 spoken	aux:pass
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 spoken	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 spoken	aux
23	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 see	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 spoken	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 asked	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 asked	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 asked	nsubj
29	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	34 maid	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 maid	det
32	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 maid	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Master	punct
34	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 asked	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 called	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 called	cc
37	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 called	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the giant			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sit up	to-infinitive	the giant not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rub	infinitive	the giant not said here	giant's eyes				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4	not see	could	giant					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive			giant			tree rules
6	ask speech: ask	past	giant				for the Master maid	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	call	past	the giant not said here		maid			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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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