The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 6

“Will it soon be ready now?” said he, but he did not look up this time any more than he had done the first time, for he was still half asleep.

Who acts: little, giant · What happens: be, say, not look up, do · 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 (little, giant), 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	_	6 ready	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ready	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ready	nsubj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 ready	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 ready	cop
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 ready	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ready	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 ready	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 look	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 look	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 look	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 look	advmod
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 look	compound:prt
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 look	obl:unmarked
21	any	any	ADV	_	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 done	advmod
23	than	than	SCONJ	_	26 done	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 done	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 done	aux
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 look	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
28	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 done	obl:unmarked
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 asleep	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 asleep	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 asleep	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 asleep	cop
34	still	still	ADV	_	36 asleep	advmod
35	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	36 asleep	advmod
36	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 done	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	future	little	now	ready, soon property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	giant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not look up	past · do-support	giant	time		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	do	past · perfect	giant	time		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	giant	still	asleep, half property	tree rules

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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