--- title: So the girl waited long enough to take her feathers out and say, "By… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:18:46 # text = 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." 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 6 enough enough ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 out out ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 By by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 virtue virtue NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 25 nsubj _ _ 25 slash slash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 blow blow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 till till ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 33 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 34 William William PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 cop _ _ 37 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 advcl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ _ 44 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 47 cc _ _ 45 yet yet ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 gather gather VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 conj _ _ 48 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ _ 49 up up ADP RP _ 47 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/47/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/)