The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 72

At first he began to abuse the Master-maid, and then to beg and pray, but the door did not care for anything but keeping him where he was till break of day.

Who acts: attorney, door · What happens: begin, abuse, beg, pray, not care, keep · To what, where: Master maid, attorney, till break

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, door), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 began	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 abuse	mark
6	abuse	abuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maid	det
8	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 maid	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Master	punct
10	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 abuse	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beg	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 beg	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 beg	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 beg	mark
15	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pray	cc
17	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 beg	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 care	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 care	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 care	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 care	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 care	advmod
24	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	parataxis
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 anything	case
26	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 care	obl
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 keeping	cc
28	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 care	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 keeping	obj
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 break	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 break	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 break	cop
33	till	till	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 break	amod
34	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 keeping	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 day	case
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 break	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	attorney				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	abuse	to-infinitive	attorney not said here	the Master maid			vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Theme
3	beg speech: request	to-infinitive			then		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
4	pray	infinitive					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	not care	past · do-support	the door			for anything	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for anything=Theme
6	keep	gerund	the door not said here	attorney			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	is a	past	attorney	till break	day		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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