More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 28

Then he told her to take three feathers from under his side, and whatever she wished through them would come to pass.

Who acts: friend, girl, Feathers · What happens: tell, take, wish, come, pass · To what, where: girl, three feathers, side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, girl, Feathers), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 feathers	nummod
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 side	case
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 side	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 side	nmod:poss
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 whatever	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 whatever	cc
15	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 told	parataxis
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wished	nsubj
17	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 whatever	acl:relcl
18	through	through	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wished	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 pass	mark
23	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	friend		girl		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	friend not said here	three feathers		friend's side		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from side=Initial_Location
3	wish	past	girl					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	come	would	Feathers = feather					tree rules
5	pass	to-infinitive	Feathers = feather not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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