The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 30

When they saw that they could not by any means prevail on him to go in with them, they came out to him with meat and drink, and the best of everything that they had prepared for the wedding; but the Prince refused to touch anything, and would do nothing but put the horses in as quickly as he could.

Who acts: horses, Prince · What happens: see, not mean, prevail, go in, come out, prepare · To what, where: giant, anything, nothing, horses · 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 (horses, Prince), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 came	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 means	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 means	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 means	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 means	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 any	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 means	obl
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	ccomp
11	prevail	prevail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 means	ccomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 prevail	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 prevail	advcl
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 go	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	out	out	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 meat	case
26	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 drink	cc
28	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 meat	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 best	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 best	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 best	det
32	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 came	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 everything	case
34	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	32 best	obl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 prepared	mark
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 prepared	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 prepared	aux
38	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 everything	acl:relcl
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 wedding	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wedding	det
41	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 prepared	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 refused	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 refused	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Prince	det
45	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 refused	nsubj
46	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 came	conj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 touch	mark
48	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 refused	xcomp
49	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	48 touch	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 do	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 do	cc
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 do	aux
53	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 touch	conj
54	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	53 do	obj
55	but	but	CCONJ	_	56 put	cc
56	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 touch	conj
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 horses	det
58	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 put	obj
59	in	in	ADP	_	56 put	compound:prt
60	as	as	ADV	_	61 quickly	advmod
61	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	56 put	advmod
62	as	as	SCONJ	_	64 could	mark
63	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 could	nsubj
64	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 quickly	advcl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	horses = horse				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not mean	could	horses = horse			by any	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	prevail	infinitive				on giant	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location
4	go in	to-infinitive				with horses = horse	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary
5	come out	past	horses = horse		giant	with meat and drink; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
6	prepare	past · perfect	horses = horse			for the wedding	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for wedding=Beneficiary
7	refuse	past	the Prince				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	not touch	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	anything			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anything=Co-Theme
9	do	would	the Prince not said here	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
10	put in	infinitive	the Prince not said here		the horses	quickly property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horse=Goal

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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