More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 31

"By virtue of my three feathers may the copper be lit, and the clothes washed, and mangled, and folded, and put away to the missus's satisfaction."

Who acts: virtue, you, missus · What happens: lit, wash, mangle, fold, put away, satisfy · To what, where: copper, clothes

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 (virtue, you, missus), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 lit	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	3 virtue	case
3	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lit	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 feathers	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feathers	nmod:poss
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 feathers	nummod
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 virtue	nmod
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 lit	aux
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 copper	det
10	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lit	nsubj:pass
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 lit	aux:pass
12	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 put	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 washed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 washed	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 clothes	det
16	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	17 washed	nsubj:pass
17	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 lit	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mangled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 mangled	cc
20	mangled	mangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 washed	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 folded	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 folded	cc
23	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 mangled	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 put	cc
26	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 put	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	32 satisfaction	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 missus	det
30	missus	missus	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 satisfaction	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 missus	case
32	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lit in a quote	may · passive	virtue of my three feathers	the copper		tree rules
2	wash in a quote	participle · passive		the clothes		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	mangle in a quote	participle				vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	fold in a quote	participle				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	put away in a quote	imperative	you not said here		to the missus's satisfaction; away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	satisfy in a quote		the missus			nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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