The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 57
“Then you may hold the shovel, and the shovel you, and pour red-hot coals over you, till day dawns,” said the Master-maid.
Who acts: you, Master maid · What happens: hold, shovel, pour, say · To what, where: shovel, hot coals · 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 | _ | 5 hold | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 hold | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 hold | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hold | aux |
| 5 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shovel | det |
| 7 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hold | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shovel | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shovel | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shovel | det |
| 11 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hold | obl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 shovel | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pour | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pour | cc |
| 15 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hold | conj |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hot | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 red | punct |
| 18 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 coals | amod |
| 19 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pour | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 pour | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dawns | punct |
| 23 | till | till | ADP | _ | 25 dawns | case |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dawns | compound |
| 25 | dawns | dawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 said | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dawns | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 dawns | punct |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pour | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 maid | det |
| 30 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 maid | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Master | punct |
| 32 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 said | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold in a quote | may | you | the shovel | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shovel=Theme | |||
| 2 | shovel in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | pour in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | hot coals | over you | tree rules | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Master maid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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