The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 42
She scowled, and was very cross, but the Master-maid did not trouble herself about that.
Who acts: crone, Master maid · What happens: scowl, be, do · To what, where: trouble
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 (crone, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 scowled | nsubj |
| 2 | scowled | scowl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cross | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cross | cc |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cross | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 cross | advmod |
| 7 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 scowled | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 did | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 maid | det |
| 11 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 maid | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Master | punct |
| 13 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 scowled | conj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 trouble | advmod |
| 16 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 did | obj |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 trouble | appos |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 that | case |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 trouble | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 scowled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scowl | past | crone | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | crone not said here | cross property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | past | the Master maid | trouble | about that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality |
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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