The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 63

So she promised to have him, and he sat down on the bench by her to arrange about it, but suddenly she said that she had forgotten to lock the door of the porch that night, and must do it.

Who acts: maid, attorney · What happens: promise, have, sit down, arrange, say, forget · To what, where: attorney, bench, door · 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 (maid, attorney), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 promised	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 have	mark
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 promised	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sat	compound:prt
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 bench	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bench	det
14	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 arrange	mark
18	arrange	arrange	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sat	advcl
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 arrange	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
23	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	25 said	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 promised	parataxis
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 forgotten	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 forgotten	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 forgotten	aux
29	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 said	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 lock	mark
31	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 forgotten	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 door	det
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lock	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 porch	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 porch	det
36	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 door	nmod
37	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 night	det
38	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lock	obl:unmarked
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 do	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 do	cc
41	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 do	aux
42	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	conj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 do	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	maid					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	maid not said here	attorney				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	sit down	past	attorney		the bench		by maid	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
4	arrange	to-infinitive	attorney not said here				about bench	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about it=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past	maid				suddenly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	forget	past · perfect	maid					tree rules
7	not lock	to-infinitive	maid not said here	the door of the porch		night		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
8	do	must	maid not said here	door				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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