The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 27
“But when you get there you must not even give yourself time to greet anyone, but go straight into the stable, and take the horses, and put them in the coach, and drive back as quickly as you can.
Who acts: you · What happens: get, not give, greet, go, take, put · To what, where: yourself, anyone, stable, horses, coach
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 (you), 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 | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 get | cc |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 get | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | advcl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 get | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 give | advmod |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 give | advmod |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 greet | mark |
| 15 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 time | acl |
| 16 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 greet | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 go | cc |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 give | conj |
| 20 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 23 stable | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 stable | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stable | det |
| 23 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 take | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 take | cc |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 give | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 horses | det |
| 28 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 take | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 put | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 put | cc |
| 31 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 give | conj |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 put | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 coach | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 coach | det |
| 35 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 put | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 drive | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 drive | cc |
| 38 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 give | conj |
| 39 | back | back | ADV | _ | 38 drive | advmod |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | _ | 41 quickly | advmod |
| 41 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 38 drive | advmod |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 can | mark |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 can | nsubj |
| 44 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 quickly | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present | you | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not give in a quote | must | you | yourself | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | |||
| 3 | greet speech: greet in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | anyone | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | take in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the horses | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | ||||
| 6 | put in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | horses = horse | the coach | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in coach=Destination | |||
| 7 | drive back in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | quickly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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