The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 7

They made a new bottom as fast as they could, but, no matter how they nailed it together, or what kind of wood they used, no sooner had they got the new bottom into the coach and were about to drive off than it broke again, so that they were still worse off than when they had broken the trace-pin.

Who acts: brother, kind · What happens: make, nail, use, have, get, be · To what, where: new bottom, bottom, wood, matter, coach, trace pin

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, kind), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bottom	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bottom	amod
5	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 made	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 could	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 could	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fast	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 got	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 got	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 matter	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 matter	det
15	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 got	obl
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 nailed	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 nailed	nsubj
18	nailed	nail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 matter	acl:relcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 nailed	obj
20	together	together	ADV	_	18 nailed	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kind	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 kind	cc
23	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	24 kind	det
24	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 got	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 wood	case
26	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kind	nmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 used	nsubj
28	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 wood	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 sooner	det
31	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 had	advmod
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 kind	conj
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 got	nsubj
34	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bottom	det
36	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 bottom	amod
37	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 got	obj
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 coach	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 coach	det
40	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 got	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 about	cc
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 about	cop
43	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 drive	mark
45	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 about	xcomp
46	off	off	ADP	_	45 drive	compound:prt
47	than	than	SCONJ	_	49 broke	mark
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 broke	nsubj
49	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 drive	advcl
50	again	again	ADV	_	49 broke	advmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 worse	punct
52	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	57 worse	mark
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 so	fixed
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 worse	nsubj
55	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 worse	cop
56	still	still	ADV	_	57 worse	advmod
57	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 made	xcomp
58	off	off	ADP	_	57 worse	compound:prt
59	than	than	SCONJ	_	63 broken	mark
60	when	when	SCONJ	_	63 broken	mark
61	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 broken	nsubj
62	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 broken	aux
63	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	57 worse	advcl
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 pin	det
65	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 pin	compound
66	-	-	PUNCT	_	65 trace	punct
67	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 broken	obj
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	brother	a new bottom			fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bottom=Product
2	nail	past	brother	bottom			together property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	use	past	brother	wood not said here				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient
4	have	past	what kind of wood not said here				soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	get	past	what kind of wood	no matter	the coach			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottom=Stimulus
6	is	past	brother not said here				about property	tree rules
7	drive off	to-infinitive	brother not said here					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
8	break	past	kind			again		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
9	is	past	brother			still	bad property	tree rules
10	break	past · perfect	brother	the trace pin				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pin=Patient

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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