The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 39

At first she would not let the Master-maid remain with her; but at last, after a long time, by means of good words and good payment, she obtained leave.

Who acts: maid, Master maid · What happens: not let, remain, mean, obtain, leave · To what, where: good payment

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 (maid, Master maid), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 let	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 let	advmod
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maid	det
8	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 maid	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Master	punct
10	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remain	nsubj
11	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 let	ccomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 remain	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 last	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 last	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 let	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 time	punct
19	after	after	ADP	_	22 time	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 time	det
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	amod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 means	case
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 let	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 words	case
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 words	amod
28	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 means	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 payment	cc
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 payment	amod
31	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 words	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 obtained	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 obtained	nsubj
34	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 payment	acl:relcl
35	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 obtained	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not let	would	maid		time		tree rules
2	remain	present	the Master maid			with crone	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mean	present				of good words and good payment	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	obtain	past	maid	good payment not said here			tree rules
5	leave	infinitive	maid not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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