More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 118
All the ladies of his court went and tried to put on the slipper.
Who acts: ladies · What happens: go, try, put · To what, where: slipper
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 ladies | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ladies | det |
| 3 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 court | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 court | nmod:poss |
| 6 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ladies | nmod |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tried | cc |
| 9 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 put | mark |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tried | xcomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 slipper | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 slipper | det |
| 14 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | all ladies of Prince's court | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | try | past | all ladies of Prince's court not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | all ladies of Prince's court not said here | the slipper | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on slipper=Destination |
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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