The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 55
“Just tell me when you have got hold of the shovel,” said the Master-maid.
Who acts: you, Master maid · What happens: tell, get, say, hold · To what, where: Master maid, hold, shovel · 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 (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 tell | advmod |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 got | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | aux |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 tell | advcl |
| 9 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 shovel | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shovel | det |
| 12 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hold | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 maid | det |
| 17 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 maid | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Master | punct |
| 19 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the Master maid = maid | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · perfect | you | hold of the shovel | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Master maid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hold in a quote | the shovel | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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