The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 50

Well, as he had such a fine lot of money, the Master-maid said she would have him, so they sat down to talk.

Who acts: sheriff, Master maid, maid, bushels · What happens: have, say, sit down, talk · To what, where: fine lot, sheriff · 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 (sheriff, Master maid, maid, bushels), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 lot	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lot	det
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lot	amod
9	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 money	case
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lot	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maid	det
14	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 maid	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Master	punct
16	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lot	parataxis
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 have	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sat	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 sat	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sat	nsubj
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 sat	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 talk	mark
28	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sat	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	sheriff	such fine lot of money		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Master maid			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	would	maid	sheriff		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	sit down	past	bushels = bushel		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	talk	to-infinitive	bushels = bushel not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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