More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 63

Just then the master came through the hall, and the girl said: "By virtue of my three feathers may there be slashing and striving between master and men, and may all get splashed in the pond."

Who acts: master, girl, virtue · What happens: come, say, slash, strive, splash · To what, where: hall, pond · 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 (master, girl, virtue), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 master	det
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 hall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hall	det
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 virtue	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 virtue	punct
16	By	by	ADP	_	17 virtue	case
17	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slashing	nsubj
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 slashing	aux
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 slashing	advmod
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 slashing	aux
25	slashing	slash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 striving	cc
27	striving	strive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 slashing	conj
28	between	between	ADP	_	29 master	case
29	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 striving	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 men	cc
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 master	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 splashed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 splashed	cc
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 splashed	aux
35	all	all	ADV	_	37 splashed	advmod
36	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 splashed	aux:pass
37	splashed	splash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 came	advcl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 pond	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 pond	det
40	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 splashed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the master	the hall	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through hall=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the girl				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	slash in a quote	may · progressive	virtue of my three feathers	there			vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	strive in a quote	gerund	virtue of my three feathers not said here			between master and men	tree rules
5	splash in a quote	may · passive	the master not said here	the pond		all property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: in pond=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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