The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 2

But when they had seated themselves in the coach and were about to drive off from the palace one of the trace-pins broke, and, though they made one, two, and three to put in its place, that did not help them, for each broke in turn, no matter what kind of wood they used to make them of.

Who acts: brother, three, that · What happens: seat, be, drive off, break, make, put · To what, where: brother, coach, palace, one, place, kind

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, three, that), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 seated	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 seated	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seated	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seated	aux
5	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 seated	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 coach	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coach	det
9	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seated	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 about	cc
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 about	cop
12	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seated	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 drive	mark
14	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 about	xcomp
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 drive	compound:prt
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 palace	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 palace	det
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drive	obl
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 broke	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 pins	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pins	det
22	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pins	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 trace	punct
24	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 broke	obl
25	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 drive	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 made	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
29	though	though	SCONJ	_	31 made	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 made	nsubj
31	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seated	parataxis
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 made	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 two	punct
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 one	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 put	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 put	cc
37	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 put	nsubj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 put	mark
39	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 made	advcl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 place	case
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 place	nmod:poss
42	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 put	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 help	punct
44	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 help	nsubj
45	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 help	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 help	advmod
47	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 put	conj
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 help	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 broke	punct
50	for	for	ADP	_	52 broke	case
51	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	52 broke	det
52	broke	broke	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 help	parataxis
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 turn	case
54	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 broke	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 matter	punct
56	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	57 matter	det
57	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 broke	appos
58	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	59 kind	det
59	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 used	obj
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 wood	case
61	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 kind	nmod
62	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 used	nsubj
63	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 matter	acl:relcl
64	to	to	PART	_	65 make	mark
65	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 used	xcomp
66	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 make	obj
67	of	of	ADP	_	65 make	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seat	past · perfect · passive		brother	the coach		tree rules
2	is	past				about property	tree rules
3	drive off	to-infinitive			the palace		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from palace=Trajectory
4	break	past		one		of the trace pins	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient of pin=Co-Patient
5	make	past	brother	one			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product
6	put	to-infinitive	three		coach's place		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in place=Destination
7	not help	past · do-support	that	brother			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
8	use	past	brother	what kind of wood			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent kind=Theme clause=Eventuality
9	make	to-infinitive	brother not said here	brother			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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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