More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 75

Well, they gave her a coat of silver cloth, but she wouldn't take him for all that, but went again to the henwife, who said, "Say you will not take him unless they give you a coat of beaten gold."

Who acts: geese, first, henwife, you · What happens: give, not take, go, say, beat · To what, where: coat, first, henwife, 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 (geese, first, henwife, you), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coat	det
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cloth	case
9	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cloth	compound
10	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coat	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 take	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 take	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 take	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 take	advmod
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gave	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 take	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 that	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 that	det
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 take	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
24	again	again	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 henwife	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 henwife	det
27	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 henwife	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Say	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Say	punct
33	Say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 take	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 take	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 take	advmod
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 Say	ccomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 take	obj
39	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	41 give	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 give	nsubj
41	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 take	advcl
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 give	iobj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 coat	det
44	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 give	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 gold	case
46	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 gold	amod
47	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 coat	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	geese = goose	a coat of silver cloth	first				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient coat=Theme
2	not take	would	first	henwife				for that	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for that=Beneficiary
3	go	past	geese = goose not said here			the henwife	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to henwife=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past	the henwife						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not take in a quote	future	you		henwife				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
7	give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	geese = goose	a coat of beaten gold	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient coat=Theme
8	beat in a quote	participle							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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