More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 52

Now no sooner had he started than she said: "By virtue of my three feathers may there be slashing and spilling, and James not be able to pour the brandy straight nor yet to take his hand from it until morning."

Who acts: footman, coachman, virtue, James · What happens: have, start, say, slash, spill, not be · To what, where: brandy, hand · 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 (footman, coachman, virtue, James), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 started	nsubj
6	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	ccomp
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 said	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 started	advcl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 virtue	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 virtue	punct
12	By	by	ADP	_	13 virtue	case
13	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 slashing	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 feathers	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 feathers	nmod:poss
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 feathers	nummod
17	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 virtue	nmod
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 slashing	aux
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 slashing	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 slashing	aux
21	slashing	slash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 spilling	cc
23	spilling	spill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 slashing	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 able	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 able	cc
26	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 able	nsubj
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 able	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	cop
29	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 pour	mark
31	pour	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 brandy	det
33	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pour	obj
34	straight	straight	ADV	_	31 pour	advmod
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	36 yet	cc
36	yet	yet	ADV	_	34 straight	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 take	mark
38	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 pour	advcl
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hand	nmod:poss
40	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 take	obj
41	from	from	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 take	obl
43	until	until	ADP	_	44 morning	case
44	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 take	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past				now	soon property	tree rules
2	start	past	footman					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	coachman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	slash in a quote	may · progressive	virtue of my three feathers		there			vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	spill in a quote	gerund	virtue of my three feathers not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not is in a quote	infinitive	James				able property	tree rules
7	pour in a quote	to-infinitive	James not said here	the brandy			straight property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brandy=Patient
8	take in a quote	to-infinitive	James not said here	footman's hand	brandy	morning		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme from it=Initial_Location

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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