More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 123
But no, it wouldn't do, and many a one wept, I warrant, because she couldn't get on the bonny glass shoe.
Who acts: shoe, many, I, lady · What happens: not do, weep, warrant, not get · To what, where: glass shoe
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 (shoe, many, I, lady), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 do | cc |
| 2 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 no | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 do | advmod |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wept | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wept | cc |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wept | nsubj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 many | nmod |
| 13 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 warrant | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 warrant | nsubj |
| 16 | warrant | warrant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wept | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 get | advmod |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 warrant | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 shoe | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 shoe | det |
| 25 | bonny | bonny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 glass | compound |
| 26 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shoe | compound |
| 27 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | would | shoe | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | weep | past | many a one | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | warrant | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not get | could | lady | the glass shoe | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on shoe=Source |
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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