The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 33

But no sooner had he got the piece of apple in his mouth than he forgot the Master-maid and that he was to go back in the coach to fetch her.

Who acts: giant · What happens: have, get, forget, be, fetch · To what, where: piece, mouth, Master maid, coach, maid

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 piece	det
8	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 apple	case
10	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 piece	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 mouth	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mouth	nmod:poss
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obl
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 forgot	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 forgot	nsubj
16	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 maid	det
18	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 maid	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Master	punct
20	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forgot	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 go	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 go	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 go	cop
25	to	to	PART	_	26 go	mark
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 forgot	conj
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 coach	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 coach	det
30	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 fetch	mark
32	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 go	advcl
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fetch	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past				soon property	tree rules
2	get	past	giant	the piece of apple	giant's mouth		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus
3	forget	past	giant	the Master maid			tree rules
4	is	past	giant		the coach	go property	tree rules
5	fetch	to-infinitive	giant not said here	maid			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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