The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 16

But the waiting-maid replied, more haughtily even than before: “If you want a drink, you can dismount and get it; I don’t mean to be your servant.”

Who acts: waiting maid, you · What happens: reply, want, dismount, get, not mean, be · To what, where: drink, servant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waiting maid, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 replied	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maid	det
3	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maid	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 waiting	punct
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	nsubj
6	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 haughtily	punct
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 haughtily	advmod
9	haughtily	haughtily	ADV	_	6 replied	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	12 before	advmod
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 before	fixed
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 haughtily	advmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 dismount	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 dismount	punct
15	If	if	SCONJ	_	17 want	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 want	nsubj
17	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 dismount	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 drink	det
19	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 want	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 dismount	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 dismount	aux
23	dismount	dismount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 replied	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 get	cc
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 dismount	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 get	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 mean	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 mean	nsubj
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 mean	aux
30	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 mean	advmod
31	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 dismount	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	35 servant	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 servant	cop
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 servant	nmod:poss
35	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mean	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 dismount	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 dismount	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	participle	the waiting maid		haughtily property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	a drink		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drink=Theme
3	dismount in a quote	can	you			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	get in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	drink		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	not mean in a quote	present · do-support	the waiting maid = maid			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	is a not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		your servant		tree rules

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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