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title: The Master-maid let them have it immediately--this time also she wou… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Master-maid let them have it immediately--this time also she would not say “no.” Who acts: Master maid, brother, bailiff. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 15

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The Master-maid let them have it immediately--this time also she would not say “no.”

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**Who acts:** Master maid, brother, bailiff · **What happens:** let, have, not say · **To what, where:** brother, maid, no. · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Master maid, brother, bailiff), 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:pg503:19:15
# text = The Master-maid let them have it immediately--this time also she would not say “no.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	no.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive | the Master maid | brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | infinitive | brother *not said here* | maid |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | would | bailiff | no. |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no.=Topic |

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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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