The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 86

“Then may you hold the calf’s tail, and the calf’s tail hold you, and may you go round the world together till day dawns!” said the Master-maid.

Who acts: you, tail, Master maid · What happens: hold, go, say · To what, where: tail, you, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tail, Master maid), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 hold	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 hold	advmod
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hold	nsubj
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 calf	det
7	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tail	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 calf	case
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hold	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hold	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 calf	det
13	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tail	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 calf	case
15	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hold	nsubj
16	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 hold	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 go	cc
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hold	conj
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 world	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 world	det
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
26	together	together	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
27	till	till	ADP	_	29 dawns	case
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dawns	compound
29	dawns	dawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 go	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 hold	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 hold	punct
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 maid	det
34	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 maid	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 Master	punct
36	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold in a quote	may	you	the calf's tail		then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
2	hold in a quote	present	the calf's tail	you				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	go in a quote	may	you		the world	dawn	together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round world=Initial_Location
4	say speech: express	past	the Master maid					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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