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title: At first she would not let the Master-maid remain with her; but at l… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At first she would not let the Master-maid remain with her; but at last, after a long time, by means of good words and good payment, she obtained leave. Who acts: maid, Master maid. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 39

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At first she would not let the Master-maid remain with her; but at last, after a long time, by means of good words and good payment, she obtained leave.

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**Who acts:** maid, Master maid · **What happens:** not let, remain, mean, obtain, leave · **To what, where:** good payment

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, Master maid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:18:39
# text = At first she would not let the Master-maid remain with her; but at last, after a long time, by means of good words and good payment, she obtained leave.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | would | maid |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remain** | present | the Master maid |  |  |  |  | with crone | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of good words and good payment | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **obtain** | past | maid | good payment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | infinitive | maid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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