The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 11

They had six horses already, and now they put in eight, and then ten, and then twelve, but the more they put in, and the more the coachman whipped them, the less good it did; and the coach never stirred from the spot.

Who acts: brother, more coachman, coachman · What happens: have, put, put in, whip, do, not stir · To what, where: six horses, eight, brother, coach, spot

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, more coachman, coachman), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 horses	nummod
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	already	already	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 put	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	nsubj
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 eight	case
12	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 put	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 twelve	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 twelve	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 twelve	advmod
16	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 twelve	compound
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 twelve	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 twelve	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 twelve	advmod
20	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 had	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 put	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 more	det
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 put	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	nsubj
26	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
27	in	in	ADV	_	26 put	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 whipped	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 whipped	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 more	det
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 coachman	amod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 coachman	det
33	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 whipped	nsubj
34	whipped	whip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 whipped	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 good	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 good	det
38	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 good	amod
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 whipped	obl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 did	nsubj
41	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 good	ccomp
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 stirred	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 stirred	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 coach	det
45	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 stirred	nsubj:pass
46	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	47 stirred	advmod
47	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
48	from	from	ADP	_	50 spot	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 spot	det
50	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 stirred	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	brother	six horses			ten twelve obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	put	past	brother		eight	now		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in eight=Destination
3	put in	past	brother					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	whip	past	the more coachman	brother			the less good obl	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent they=Material
5	do	past	coachman					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not stir	participle · passive		the coach	the spot			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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