The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 83
And, big and fat as he was, he went out as briskly as a boy.
Who acts: bailiff · What happens: be, go out
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 big | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 big | punct |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fat | cc |
| 5 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 big | conj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 was | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 was | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 was | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 big | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 briskly | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 briskly | advmod |
| 14 | briskly | briskly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 went | xcomp |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 boy | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 boy | det |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 briskly | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | bailiff | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go out | past | bailiff | briskly property | vn interact-36.6 «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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