The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 22

When they had sat at the table for a short time, the Master-maid took out the cock, and the hen, and the golden apple which she had brought away with her from the giant’s house, and set them on the table in front of her, and instantly the cock and the hen began to fight with each other for the golden apple.

Who acts: palace, Master maid, cock · What happens: sit, take out, bring away, set, begin, fight · To what, where: table, cock, golden apple, house, palace

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 (palace, Master maid, cock), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	aux
4	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 table	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 table	det
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maid	det
14	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 maid	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Master	punct
16	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	nsubj
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 took	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cock	det
20	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hen	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hen	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hen	det
24	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 apple	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 apple	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 apple	det
28	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 apple	amod
29	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hen	appos
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 brought	nsubj:pass
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 brought	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 brought	aux
33	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 apple	acl:relcl
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 brought	advmod
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 brought	obl
37	from	from	ADP	_	41 house	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 giant	det
39	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 house	nmod:poss
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 giant	case
41	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 brought	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 set	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 set	cc
44	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 took	conj
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 set	obj
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 table	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 table	det
48	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 set	obl
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 front	case
50	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 set	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 her	case
52	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 front	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 began	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 began	cc
55	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	57 cock	advmod
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 cock	det
57	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 began	nsubj
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 hen	cc
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 hen	det
60	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 cock	conj
61	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	conj
62	to	to	PART	_	63 fight	mark
63	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 began	xcomp
64	with	with	ADP	_	65 each	case
65	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	63 fight	obl
66	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 each	fixed
67	for	for	ADP	_	70 apple	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 apple	det
69	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 apple	amod
70	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 fight	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · perfect	palace		the table	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
2	take out	past	the Master maid	the cock			the hen obl	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme
3	bring away	past · perfect · passive		the golden apple	the giant's house		with maiden; away property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from house=Initial_Location
4	set	infinitive	the Master maid not said here	palace	the table		in front of maiden	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on table=Destination
5	begin	past	the cock and the hen					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	fight	to-infinitive	the cock and the hen not said here				with each; for the golden apple	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with each=Co-Agent

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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