The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 60
The next day the attorney came riding by the place where the Master-maid dwelt.
Who acts: attorney, Master maid · What happens: come, ride, dwell
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 (attorney, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 attorney | det |
| 5 | attorney | attorney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 came | advcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 riding | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 dwelt | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maid | det |
| 13 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maid | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Master | punct |
| 15 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dwelt | nsubj |
| 16 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 place | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the attorney | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride | gerund | the attorney not said here | by the place | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dwell | past | the Master maid | vn exist-47.1 «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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