The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 40

But the hut was as dirty and black inside as a pigsty, so the Master-maid said that she would smarten it up a little, that it might look a little more like what other people’s houses looked inside.

Who acts: hut, Master maid, maid, houses · What happens: be, say, smarten up, look · To what, where: hut · 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 (hut, Master maid, maid, houses), 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	_	6 dirty	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hut	det
3	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dirty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dirty	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 dirty	advmod
6	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 black	cc
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dirty	conj
9	inside	inside	ADV	_	8 black	advmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 pigsty	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pigsty	det
12	pigsty	pigsty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 inside	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	19 said	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 maid	det
16	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 maid	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Master	punct
18	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dirty	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 smarten	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 smarten	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 smarten	aux
23	smarten	smarten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 smarten	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 smarten	compound:prt
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 little	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 smarten	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 look	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 look	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 look	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 look	aux
32	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 smarten	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 little	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 more	obl:unmarked
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 look	advmod
36	like	like	ADP	_	37 what	case
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 more	obl
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 people	amod
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 houses	nmod:poss
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 people	case
41	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 looked	nsubj
42	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 what	acl:relcl
43	inside	inside	ADV	_	42 looked	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dirty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hut		dirty property	tree rules
2	be		the hut not said here		inside property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the Master maid			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	smarten up	would	maid	hut	a little obl:unmarked	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	look	might	hut			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	look	past	other people's houses		inside property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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