More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 76
So they took all her fine clothes away from her, and gave her only a coat made of rushes.
Who acts: daughters · What happens: take, give, make · To what, where: fine clothes, coat, wife
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 clothes | det:predet |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clothes | amod |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 coat | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 coat | det |
| 17 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 coat | acl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rushes | case |
| 20 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | daughters = daughter | wife's fine clothes | from wife; away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme from she=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | give | past | daughters = daughter not said here | a coat | wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient coat=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | participle | a coat not said here | of rushes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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