The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 13
Then the bailiff spoke up and said: “Out there in the gilded cottage in the thicket dwells a girl, and if you could but get her to lend you her calf I know it could draw the coach, even if it were as heavy as a mountain.”
Who acts: bailiff, girl, calf, coach · What happens: speak up, say, gild, dwell, get, lend · To what, where: girl, thicket, calf, you, coach · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bailiff, girl, calf, coach), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bailiff | det |
| 3 | bailiff | bailiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 spoke | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 there | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 there | punct |
| 10 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 11 there | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 cottage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cottage | det |
| 14 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cottage | amod |
| 15 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 there | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 thicket | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thicket | det |
| 18 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dwells | obl |
| 19 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dwells | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 get | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 get | cc |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 could | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 could | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 get | aux |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 get | cc |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spoke | conj |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 get | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 lend | mark |
| 31 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 get | xcomp |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 lend | obj |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 calf | nmod:poss |
| 34 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lend | obj |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 know | nsubj |
| 36 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 calf | acl:relcl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 draw | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 draw | aux |
| 39 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 know | ccomp |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 coach | det |
| 41 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 draw | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 heavy | punct |
| 43 | even | even | ADV | _ | 48 heavy | advmod |
| 44 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 48 heavy | mark |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 heavy | nsubj |
| 46 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 heavy | cop |
| 47 | as | as | ADV | _ | 48 heavy | advmod |
| 48 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lend | advcl |
| 49 | as | as | ADP | _ | 51 mountain | case |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 mountain | det |
| 51 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 heavy | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
| 53 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak up speech: other | past | the bailiff | then | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the bailiff not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | gild in a quote | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | dwell in a quote | present | a girl | the thicket | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme girl=Location | ||||
| 5 | get in a quote | could | the bailiff not said here | girl | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | lend in a quote | to-infinitive | girl not said here | bailiff's calf | you | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient calf=Theme | |||
| 7 | know in a quote | present | the bailiff = bailiff | bailiff's calf not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | draw in a quote | could | calf | the coach | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coach=Theme | ||||
| 9 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | coach | as a mountain; heavy property | tree rules |
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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