More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 46

So the girl waited long enough to take her feathers out and say, "By virtue of my three feathers may the clothes slash and blow about till morning, and may William not be able to take his hand from them nor yet to gather them up."

Who acts: girl, clothes, William · What happens: wait, take out, say, slash, blow, not be · To what, where: feathers, hand, clothes · 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 (girl, clothes, William), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 waited	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	nsubj
4	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 waited	advmod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 waited	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 waited	advcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feathers	nmod:poss
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 take	obj
11	out	out	ADV	_	8 take	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 say	cc
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 take	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 virtue	punct
16	By	by	ADP	_	17 virtue	case
17	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slash	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 feathers	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feathers	nmod:poss
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 feathers	nummod
21	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 virtue	nmod
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 slash	aux
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 clothes	det
24	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 slash	nsubj
25	slash	slash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 blow	cc
27	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 slash	conj
28	about	about	ADV	_	27 blow	advmod
29	till	till	ADP	_	30 morning	case
30	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 blow	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 able	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 able	cc
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 able	aux
34	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 able	nsubj
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 able	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 able	cop
37	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 slash	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 take	mark
39	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 able	xcomp
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 hand	nmod:poss
41	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 take	obj
42	from	from	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 take	obl
44	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	47 gather	cc
45	yet	yet	ADV	_	47 gather	advmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 gather	mark
47	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 take	conj
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 gather	obj
49	up	up	ADP	_	47 gather	compound:prt
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the girl			enough, long property	tree rules
2	take out	to-infinitive	the girl not said here	girl's feathers		out property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	the girl not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	slash in a quote	may	the clothes			by virtue of my three feathers	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	blow in a quote	present	the clothes not said here		morning	about property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
6	not is in a quote	may	William			able property	tree rules
7	take in a quote	to-infinitive	William not said here	William's hand		from clothes	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme from they=Initial_Location
8	gather up in a quote	to-infinitive	William not said here	clothes	yet		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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