Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 172

So the prince took the shoe, and went the next day to the king, his father, and said, "I will take for my wife the lady that this golden shoe fits."

Who acts: prince, golden shoe · What happens: take, go, say, fit · To what, where: shoe, lady · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, golden shoe), 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shoe	det
6	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl:unmarked
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 king	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 father	punct
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 king	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 take	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 take	aux
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 wife	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wife	nmod:poss
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lady	det
31	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 fits	mark
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 shoe	det
34	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 shoe	amod
35	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fits	nsubj
36	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 take	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the prince	the shoe			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
2	go	past	the prince not said here		day	to the king and King's father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the prince not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take in a quote	future	the prince = prince	the lady		for my wife	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lady=Theme for wife=Beneficiary
5	fit in a quote	present	this golden shoe				vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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