More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 74

The henwife said, "Say you will not take him unless they give you a coat of silver cloth."

Who acts: henwife, you, geese · What happens: say, not take, give · To what, where: henwife, coat, you · 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 (henwife, you, geese), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 henwife	det
2	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Say	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Say	punct
6	Say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 take	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 take	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 take	advmod
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Say	ccomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	obj
12	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	14 give	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	nsubj
14	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 take	advcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 coat	det
17	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 cloth	case
19	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cloth	compound
20	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 coat	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Say	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the henwife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not take in a quote	future	you		henwife	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
4	give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	geese = goose	a coat of silver cloth	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient coat=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.

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