The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 84

“Tell me when you have got hold of the calf’s tail,” said the Master-maid.

Who acts: you, Master maid · What happens: tell, get, say, hold · To what, where: me, hold, tail · 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 (you, Master 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 got	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 got	aux
7	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Tell	ccomp
8	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 tail	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 calf	det
11	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tail	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 calf	case
13	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hold	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 maid	det
18	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 maid	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Master	punct
20	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	get in a quote	present · perfect	you	hold of the calf's tail		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the Master maid			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hold in a quote			the calf's tail		nom hold «act 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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