The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 4

Then the sheriff said (for he too had been bidden to the wedding at Court): “Yonder away in the thicket dwells a maiden, and if you can get her to lend you the handle of the shovel that she uses to make up her fire I know very well that it will hold fast.”

Who acts: sheriff, you, three, fire · What happens: say, bid, dwell, get, lend, use · To what, where: sheriff, maiden, thicket, three, handle, you · 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 (sheriff, you, three, fire), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sheriff	det
3	sheriff	sheriff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 bidden	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 bidden	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bidden	nsubj
8	too	too	ADV	_	11 bidden	advmod
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bidden	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 bidden	aux:pass
11	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 wedding	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wedding	det
14	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bidden	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 Court	case
16	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wedding	nmod
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 bidden	punct
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 dwells	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 away	punct
20	Yonder	yonder	ADV	_	21 away	advmod
21	away	away	ADV	_	25 dwells	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 thicket	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 thicket	det
24	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dwells	obl
25	dwells	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 maiden	det
27	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dwells	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 get	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 get	cc
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 get	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 get	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 get	aux
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 dwells	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 get	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 lend	mark
36	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 get	xcomp
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 lend	obj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 handle	det
39	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lend	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 shovel	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 shovel	det
42	shovel	shovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 handle	nmod
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 uses	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 uses	nsubj
45	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 lend	advcl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 make	mark
47	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 know	advcl
48	up	up	ADP	_	47 make	compound:prt
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 fire	nmod:poss
50	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 make	obj
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 know	nsubj
52	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 uses	parataxis
53	very	very	ADV	_	54 well	advmod
54	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	52 know	advmod
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 hold	mark
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 hold	nsubj
57	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 hold	aux
58	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 well	advcl
59	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	58 hold	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 dwells	punct
61	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 dwells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the sheriff				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bid	past · perfect · passive		sheriff				to the wedding at Court	tree rules
3	dwell in a quote	present		a maiden		the thicket		away property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme maiden=Location
4	get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	you	three					tree rules
5	lend in a quote	to-infinitive	three not said here	the handle of the shovel	you				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient handle=Theme
6	use in a quote	present	three						vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	make up in a quote	to-infinitive	the sheriff = sheriff not said here	three's fire					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Pivot
8	know in a quote	present	the sheriff = sheriff					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	hold in a quote	future	fire					fast property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	fire in a quote		three						nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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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