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

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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."

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**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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:31:78
# text = 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."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	still	still	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	henwife	henwife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	44	advmod	_	_
44	again	again	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
47	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	Say	say	INTJ	UH	_	54	discourse	_	_
51	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
52	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	54	advmod	_	_
54	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	ccomp	_	_
55	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	catskin	catskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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.

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**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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