The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 26

So at last the Master-maid had to yield, for he was so absolutely determined to do it.

Who acts: Master maid, giant · What happens: have, yield, be, do · To what, where: evil

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 (Master maid, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 last	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maid	det
5	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 maid	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Master	punct
7	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 last	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 yield	mark
10	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 determined	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 determined	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 determined	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 determined	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 determined	advmod
16	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	17 determined	advmod
17	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 yield	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 determined	xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 do	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Master maid			tree rules
2	yield	to-infinitive	the Master maid not said here			vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	giant		absolutely, determined property	tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	giant not said here	evil		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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