The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 21
So they determined to go home to the Prince’s father, but the Prince would on no account permit the Master-maid to walk there, for he thought that it was unbecoming either for her or for him to go on foot.
Who acts: Prince, giant, sucker · What happens: determine, go, permit, walk, think, unbecom · To what, where: Master maid, account, foot
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 (Prince, giant, sucker), 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 determined | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 determined | nsubj |
| 3 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 determined | xcomp |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 father | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Prince | case |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 permit | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 permit | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Prince | det |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 permit | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 permit | aux |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 account | case |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 account | det |
| 19 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 permit | obl |
| 20 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 determined | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 maid | det |
| 22 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 maid | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Master | punct |
| 24 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 permit | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 walk | mark |
| 26 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 permit | advcl |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 walk | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 thought | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 thought | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 thought | nsubj |
| 31 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 determined | conj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 unbecoming | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 unbecoming | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 unbecoming | aux |
| 35 | unbecoming | unbecom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 thought | advcl |
| 36 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 38 her | cc:preconj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 her | case |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 unbecoming | obl |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 him | cc |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 her | conj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 go | mark |
| 43 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 35 unbecoming | ccomp |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 foot | case |
| 45 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 go | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | Prince | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | to the Prince's father; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | permit | would | the Prince | the Master maid | no account | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent maid=Theme on account=Location | |||
| 4 | walk | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | there | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | giant | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | unbecom | past · progressive | sucker | for maid | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | sucker not said here | foot | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on foot=Location |
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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