More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 125
The first two tried it and it wouldn't do, and the queen, mad with spite, hacked off the toes and heels of the third sister, and she could then put the slipper on, and the prince was brought to marry her, for he had to keep his promise.
Who acts: first two, shoe, queen, Prince · What happens: try, not do, hack off, put on, bring, marry · To what, where: shoe, toes, slipper, prince, queen, promise
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 (first two, shoe, queen, Prince), 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 | 3 two | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 two | amod |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tried | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 do | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 do | advmod |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 queen | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 queen | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 queen | det |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tried | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mad | punct |
| 16 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 queen | amod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 spite | case |
| 18 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mad | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hacked | punct |
| 20 | hacked | hack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 queen | parataxis |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 toes | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 toes | det |
| 23 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hacked | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 heels | cc |
| 25 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 toes | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 sister | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sister | det |
| 28 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 sister | amod |
| 29 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 heels | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 put | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 put | cc |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 put | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 put | aux |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 put | advmod |
| 35 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hacked | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 slipper | det |
| 37 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 put | obj |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 put | compound:prt |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 brought | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 brought | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 prince | det |
| 42 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 brought | aux:pass |
| 44 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 queen | parataxis |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 marry | mark |
| 46 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 brought | xcomp |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 marry | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 had | punct |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 51 had | case |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 had | nsubj |
| 51 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 marry | advcl |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 keep | mark |
| 53 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 had | xcomp |
| 54 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 promise | nmod:poss |
| 55 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 keep | obj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the first two | shoe | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not do | would | shoe | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hack off | participle | the toes and heels of the third sister | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Product | |||||
| 4 | put on | could | queen | the slipper | then | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent slipper=Goal | |||
| 5 | bring | past · passive | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | marry | to-infinitive | queen | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||||
| 7 | have | past | Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | keep | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince's promise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 9 | promise | Prince | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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: «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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