More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 78

So each bird took a pea and put down one of its feathers: and they took all the feathers and made a coat of them and gave it to her; but still she would not, but asked the henwife once again, who said, "Say they must first make you a coat of catskin."

Who acts: bird, birds · What happens: take, put down, make, give, ask, say · To what, where: pea, one, feathers, coat, first, henwife · 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 (bird, birds), 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	_	4 took	advmod
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pea	det
6	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 put	cc
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	conj
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 put	compound:prt
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 put	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 feathers	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 feathers	nmod:poss
13	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 took	nsubj
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 feathers	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 feathers	det
20	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 took	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 coat	det
24	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 coat	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gave	cc
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 made	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gave	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gave	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 would	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 would	cc
34	still	still	ADV	_	36 would	advmod
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 would	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 took	advcl
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 would	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 asked	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 asked	cc
40	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 henwife	det
42	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 asked	obj
43	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	44 again	advmod
44	again	again	ADV	_	40 asked	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 said	punct
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 said	nsubj
47	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 asked	parataxis
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 make	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 make	punct
50	Say	say	INTJ	_	54 make	discourse
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 make	nsubj
52	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 make	aux
53	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	54 make	advmod
54	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 said	ccomp
55	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 make	obj
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 coat	det
57	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 make	obj
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 catskin	case
59	catskin	catskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 coat	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	each bird	a pea				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Theme
2	put down	infinitive	each bird not said here	one of pea's feathers				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal
3	take	past	birds = bird	all feathers				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme
4	make	past	birds = bird not said here	a coat of birds				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset coat=Product
5	give	past	birds = bird not said here	coat	first			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient
6	ask speech: ask	past	each bird not said here	the henwife		again		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent henwife=Recipient
7	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	make in a quote	must	birds = bird	a coat of catskin	you		first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary coat=Product

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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