Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 28

The sisters would give no peace till they had two dresses like the robes of the strange lady; but honey-birds and honey-fingers were not to be found.

Who acts: sisters, robes · What happens: give, have, not find · To what, where: peace, two dresses, honey birds

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, robes), 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 sisters	det
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 peace	det
6	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	advcl
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 dresses	nummod
11	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 robes	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 robes	det
14	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dresses	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 lady	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lady	det
17	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lady	amod
18	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 robes	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 found	cc
21	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 birds	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 honey	punct
23	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 found	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fingers	cc
25	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fingers	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 honey	punct
27	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 birds	conj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 found	aux:pass
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 found	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	32 found	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 found	aux:pass
32	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 give	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	would	the sisters	no peace		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme
2	have	past	robes = robe	two dresses	like the robes of the strange lady	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient
3	not find	past · passive		honey birds and honey fingers		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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