More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 76

Well, they gave her a coat of beaten gold, but still she would not take him, but went to the henwife, who said, "Say you will not take him unless they give you a coat made of the feathers of all the birds of the air."

Who acts: geese, first, henwife, you · What happens: give, beat, not take, go, say, make · 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 gold	case
9	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 gold	amod
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coat	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 take	cc
13	still	still	ADV	_	17 take	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 take	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 take	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 take	advmod
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gave	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 take	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 henwife	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 henwife	det
24	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 henwife	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Say	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Say	punct
30	Say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 take	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 take	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 take	advmod
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 Say	ccomp
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 take	obj
36	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	38 give	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 give	nsubj
38	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 take	advcl
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 give	iobj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 coat	det
41	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 give	obj
42	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 coat	acl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 feathers	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 feathers	det
45	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 made	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 birds	case
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 birds	det:predet
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 birds	det
49	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 feathers	nmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 air	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 air	det
52	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 birds	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
54	"	"	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 beaten gold	first				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient coat=Theme
2	beat	participle							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not take	would	first		henwife		still		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
4	go	past	geese = goose not said here			the henwife			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to henwife=Initial_Location
5	say speech: assert	past	the henwife						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not take in a quote	future	you		henwife				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
8	give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	geese = goose	a coat	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient coat=Theme
9	make in a quote	participle		a coat not said here				of the feathers of all birds of the air	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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