More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 1

At last, one spring morning, the gudewife gave her seven heads of lint, saying she would take no excuse; they must be returned in three days spun into yarn.

Who acts: gudewife · What happens: give, say, take, return, spin · To what, where: seven heads, her, excuse, heads, three days, yarn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gudewife), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 morning	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 morning	nummod
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 morning	compound
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 morning	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gudewife	det
9	gudewife	gudewife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 heads	nummod
13	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gave	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 lint	case
15	lint	lint	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heads	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saying	punct
17	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 gave	advcl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 take	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 take	aux
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 saying	ccomp
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 excuse	det
22	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 returned	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 returned	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 returned	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 returned	aux:pass
27	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 gave	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 days	case
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 days	nummod
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 returned	obl
31	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 days	acl
32	into	into	ADP	_	33 yarn	case
33	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spun	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	give	past	the gudewife	seven heads of lint	her = she		morning	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient head=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the gudewife not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	would	gudewife	no excuse				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Theme
4	return	must · passive		heads = head			day	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	spin	participle		three days not said here		yarn		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into yarn=Trajectory

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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