The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 7

“Half done!” said the second drop of blood, and the giant believed it was the Master-maid again, and turned himself on the bench, and lay down to sleep once more.

Who acts: second drop, giant, blood · What happens: do, say, believe, be, turn, lay down · To what, where: Master maid, giant, bench · 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 (second drop, giant, blood), 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 said	punct
2	Half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 done	advmod
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 drop	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 drop	amod
9	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 blood	case
11	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drop	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 believed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 believed	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 giant	det
15	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 believed	nsubj
16	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 maid	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 maid	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 maid	det
20	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 maid	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Master	punct
22	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 believed	ccomp
23	again	again	ADV	_	22 maid	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turned	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 turned	cc
26	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 turned	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 bench	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bench	det
30	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turned	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lay	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lay	cc
33	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 turned	conj
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 lay	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 sleep	mark
36	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 lay	advcl
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	38 more	advmod
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 sleep	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	participle					half property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: express	past	the second drop of blood					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	believe	past	the giant					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	blood	the Master maid		again		tree rules
5	turn	past	the second drop of blood not said here	giant	the bench			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
6	lay down	infinitive	the second drop of blood not said here				down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	sleep	to-infinitive	the second drop of blood not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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