The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 76
On the third day the bailiff came by, and he too saw the gold house in the little wood, and he too felt that he must go and see who lived there; and when he caught sight of the Master-maid he became so much in love with her that he wooed her almost before he greeted her.
Who acts: bailiff · What happens: come by, see, feel, go, live, catch · To what, where: gold house, little wood, sight, maid, Master maid · 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 (bailiff), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bailiff | det |
| 6 | bailiff | bailiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 saw | advmod |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | compound |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 wood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wood | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wood | amod |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 felt | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 felt | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 felt | nsubj |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 25 felt | advmod |
| 25 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 go | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 go | nsubj |
| 28 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | aux |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 felt | ccomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 see | cc |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 go | conj |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 lived | nsubj |
| 33 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | ccomp |
| 34 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 lived | advmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 caught | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 caught | cc |
| 37 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 39 caught | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 caught | nsubj |
| 39 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 40 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 caught | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 maid | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 maid | det |
| 43 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 maid | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 Master | punct |
| 45 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sight | nmod |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 became | nsubj |
| 47 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 caught | parataxis |
| 48 | so | so | ADV | _ | 49 much | advmod |
| 49 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 became | xcomp |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 love | case |
| 51 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 much | nmod |
| 52 | with | with | ADP | _ | 53 her | case |
| 53 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 much | nmod |
| 54 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 56 wooed | mark |
| 55 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 wooed | nsubj |
| 56 | wooed | woo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 much | advcl |
| 57 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 wooed | obj |
| 58 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 61 greeted | advmod |
| 59 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 61 greeted | mark |
| 60 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 greeted | nsubj |
| 61 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 wooed | advcl |
| 62 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 greeted | obj |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come by | past | the bailiff | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | bailiff | the gold house | the little wood | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | feel | past | bailiff | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | must | bailiff | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | bailiff not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | live | past | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | catch | past | bailiff | sight of the Master maid | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 8 | become | past | bailiff | much property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 9 | woo | past | bailiff | maid | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 10 | greet speech: greet | past | bailiff | maid | almost property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 11 | sight | the Master maid | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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