The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 51

But scarcely had they sat down together before the Master-maid wanted to jump up again.

Who acts: bushels, Master maid · What happens: have, sit down, want, jump up

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 (bushels, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 sat	compound:prt
7	together	together	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 wanted	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 maid	det
10	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 maid	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Master	punct
12	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wanted	nsubj
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 jump	mark
15	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wanted	xcomp
16	up	up	ADV	_	15 jump	advmod
17	again	again	ADV	_	15 jump	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	have	past			scarcely property	tree rules
2	sit down	past	bushels = bushel		together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want	past	the Master maid			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	jump up not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Master maid not said here	again		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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