The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 15

The Master-maid let them have it immediately--this time also she would not say “no.”

Who acts: Master maid, brother, bailiff · What happens: let, have, not say · To what, where: brother, maid, no. · 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 (Master maid, brother, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maid	det
2	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maid	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Master	punct
4	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	nsubj
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	obj
9	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	7 have	advmod
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	obl:unmarked
13	also	also	ADV	_	17 say	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 say	advmod
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	conj
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 no.	punct
19	no.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	17 say	obj
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 no.	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	the Master maid	brother			tree rules
2	have	infinitive	brother not said here	maid		immediately property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	not say speech: assert	would	bailiff	no.	time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no.=Topic

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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