The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 24
“Yes, and so did we two fight to get out that time when we were in the mountain,” said the Master-maid.
Who acts: we, Master maid · What happens: do, fight, get out, be, say · To what, where: mountain · 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 (we, 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 | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 did | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 did | cc |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 did | advmod |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | ccomp |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 fight | nsubj |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 fight | nsubj |
| 9 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 did | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fight | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 get | compound:prt |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 mountain | advmod |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 mountain | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 mountain | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 mountain | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mountain | det |
| 20 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 maid | det |
| 25 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 maid | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Master | punct |
| 27 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | fight in a quote | present | we | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get out in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | time | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | we | the mountain | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the Master maid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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