More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 39

The butler said, "Never you trouble, I'll put them right." and he ran back, while she took her feathers, and said: "By virtue of my three feathers may the shutters slash and bang till morning, and John not be able to fasten them nor yet to get his fingers free from them."

Who acts: butler, you, girl, shutters, John · What happens: say, not trouble, put, run back, take, slash · To what, where: shutters, feathers, fingers · 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 (butler, you, girl, shutters), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 butler	det
2	butler	butler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 trouble	punct
6	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 trouble	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 trouble	nsubj
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 put	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 put	aux
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 trouble	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 put	obj
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 put	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 trouble	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 trouble	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ran	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ran	nsubj
19	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 ran	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 took	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ran	conj
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 feathers	nmod:poss
26	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 took	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 virtue	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 virtue	punct
32	By	by	ADP	_	33 virtue	case
33	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	ccomp
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 feathers	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 feathers	nmod:poss
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 feathers	nummod
37	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 virtue	nmod
38	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 slash	aux
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 shutters	det
40	shutters	shutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 slash	nsubj
41	slash	slash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 virtue	parataxis
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 bang	cc
43	bang	bang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 slash	conj
44	till	till	ADP	_	45 morning	case
45	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bang	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 able	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 able	cc
48	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 able	nsubj
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 able	advmod
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 able	cop
51	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 said	ccomp
52	to	to	PART	_	53 fasten	mark
53	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 able	xcomp
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 fasten	obj
55	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	56 yet	cc
56	yet	yet	ADV	_	53 fasten	conj
57	to	to	PART	_	58 get	mark
58	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 fasten	advcl
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 fingers	nmod:poss
60	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 get	obj
61	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 get	xcomp
62	from	from	ADP	_	63 them	case
63	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 free	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
65	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the butler				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not trouble in a quote		you				tree rules
3	put in a quote	future	the butler = butler	shutters = shutter		right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
4	run back	past	butler				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take	past	girl	girl's feathers			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	slash in a quote	may	the shutters				vn cut-21.1-1 «NP.instrument V ADVP»: agent=Instrument
8	bang in a quote	present	the shutters not said here		morning		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	not is in a quote	infinitive	John			able property	tree rules
10	fasten in a quote	to-infinitive	John not said here	shutters = shutter			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
11	get in a quote	to-infinitive	John not said here	John's fingers		free property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Stimulus

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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