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description: 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. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fai
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 63

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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."

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**Who acts:** master, girl, virtue · **What happens:** come, say, slash, strive, splash · **To what, where:** hall, pond · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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**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:pg14241:18:63
# text = 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."
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	By	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
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	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	slashing	slash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	striving	strive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
28	between	between	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	all	all	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	splashed	splash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | 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 |

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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.

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**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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