More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 55

So James told him he could not make it out, but he could not get the drop of brandy the laundry-maid had asked for, and his hand would shake and spill everything, and yet come away he could not.

Who acts: James, brandy, hand · What happens: tell, not make out, not get, ask, shake, spill · To what, where: footman, master, drop, laundry maid, everything · 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 (James, brandy, hand), 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	_	3 told	advmod
2	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 make	advmod
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	8 make	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 get	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 get	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 get	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 get	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 get	advmod
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 drop	det
18	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 brandy	case
20	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drop	nmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 maid	det
22	laundry	laundry	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 maid	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 laundry	punct
24	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 asked	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 asked	aux
26	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 brandy	acl:relcl
27	for	for	ADP	_	26 asked	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 shake	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 shake	cc
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hand	nmod:poss
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shake	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 shake	aux
33	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 spill	cc
35	spill	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 shake	conj
36	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	35 spill	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 come	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 come	cc
39	yet	yet	ADV	_	40 come	advmod
40	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 shake	conj
41	away	away	ADV	_	40 come	advmod
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 could	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 come	conj
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 could	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	James		footman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not make out	could	James	master				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	not get	could	James	the drop of brandy				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drop=Stimulus
4	ask speech: ask	past · perfect · passive	brandy not said here	the laundry maid				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	shake	would	James's hand					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	spill	infinitive	James's hand not said here	everything				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location everything=Theme
7	come away	infinitive	James's hand not said here			yet	away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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