The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 27

But in a few minutes a maid saw him, and said to her master, ‘I pray you, sir, to drive away that beggar who is sitting on the steps, or he will fill the whole house with his dirt.’

Who acts: maid, I, beggar, Don · What happens: see, say, pray, drive away, sit, fill · To what, where: Don, master, you, beggar, whole house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, I, beggar, Don), 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	_	8 saw	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 minutes	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 minutes	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 minutes	amod
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saw	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 maid	det
7	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 master	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 master	nmod:poss
15	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pray	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 pray	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 pray	nsubj
19	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 pray	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sir	punct
22	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pray	vocative
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 drive	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 drive	mark
25	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 pray	conj
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 drive	advmod
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 beggar	det
28	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drive	obj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 sitting	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 sitting	aux
31	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 beggar	acl:relcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 steps	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 steps	det
34	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sitting	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 fill	punct
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 fill	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 fill	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 fill	aux
39	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 drive	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 house	det
41	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 house	amod
42	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fill	obj
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 dirt	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 dirt	nmod:poss
45	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fill	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	a maid	Don		minute		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	a maid not said here		maid's master			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient
3	pray	present	I	you			sir vocative	tree rules
4	drive away	to-infinitive	I not said here	that beggar			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beggar=Trajectory
5	sit	present · progressive	that beggar				on the steps	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location
6	fill	future	Don	the whole house			with Don's dirt	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent house=Patient with dirt=Instrument

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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