The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 87

So the bailiff had to bestir himself, for the calf went over rough and smooth, over hill and dale, and, the more the bailiff cried and screamed, the faster the calf went.

Who acts: bailiff, calf · What happens: have, bestir, go over, cry, scream, go · To what, where: bailiff, hill

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, calf), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bailiff	det
3	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bestir	mark
6	bestir	bestir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 bestir	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 went	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 calf	det
11	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
13	over	over	ADV	_	14 rough	advmod
14	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 went	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 smooth	cc
16	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rough	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hill	punct
18	over	over	ADP	_	19 hill	case
19	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 dale	cc
21	dale	dale	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hill	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cried	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 cried	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 and	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 more	det
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 cried	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bailiff	det
28	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cried	nsubj
29	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 screamed	cc
31	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 cried	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 faster	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 faster	det
34	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 screamed	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 calf	det
36	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 went	nsubj
37	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 faster	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the bailiff				tree rules
2	bestir	to-infinitive	the bailiff not said here	bailiff			tree rules
3	go over	past	the calf		hill and dale	rough property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over hill=Location
4	cry speech: express	past	the bailiff				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	scream speech: express	past	the bailiff not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go	past	the calf				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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