The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 20

“Greet the King, and tell him that, if he is too good to come to me, I am too good to come to him,” replied the Master-maid.

Who acts: King, Master maid · What happens: greet, tell, be, come, reply · To what, where: King, that, Master maid · 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 (King, Master maid), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Greet	punct
2	Greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 replied	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Greet	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tell	cc
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Greet	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 tell	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 good	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 good	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 good	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 good	cop
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 good	advmod
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tell	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 come	mark
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 good	csubj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 come	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 good	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 good	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 good	cop
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 good	advmod
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Greet	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 come	mark
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 good	csubj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 come	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Greet	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Greet	punct
31	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 maid	det
33	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 maid	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 Master	punct
35	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 replied	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet in a quote	infinitive			the King		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		that	King		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic
3	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	King			good property	tree rules
4	come in a quote	to-infinitive			the Master maid = maid		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
5	is in a quote	present	the Master maid = maid			good property	tree rules
6	come in a quote	to-infinitive			King		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
7	reply speech: assert	past	the Master maid				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=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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