The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 81

But hardly had they sat down together before she said that she had forgotten to bring in the calf, and must go out to put it in the byre.

Who acts: sack, maid · What happens: have, sit down, say, forget, not bring, go out · To what, where: money, byre · 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 (sack, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 sat	compound:prt
7	together	together	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 said	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 forgotten	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 forgotten	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 forgotten	aux
14	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 bring	mark
16	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 forgotten	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 calf	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 calf	det
19	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bring	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 go	cc
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 go	aux
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 go	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 put	mark
26	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 go	xcomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 byre	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 byre	det
30	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past				hardly property	tree rules
2	sit down	past	sack			together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	maid				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	forget	past · perfect	maid				tree rules
5	not bring	to-infinitive	maid not said here			in the calf	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
6	go out	must				out property	tree rules
7	put	to-infinitive		money	the byre		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in byre=Destination

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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