More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 61

The golden shoes are a gift of the hero to the heroine which destroys the whole point of the _Shoe marriage test_, and cannot have been in the original, wherever it originated.

Who acts: golden shoes, heroine, shoe · What happens: be, destroy, not be, originate, point · To what, where: gift, whole point, marriage test

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (golden shoes, heroine, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shoes	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shoes	amod
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gift	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gift	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gift	det
6	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hero	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hero	det
9	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gift	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 heroine	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 heroine	det
12	heroine	heroine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hero	nmod
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 destroys	nsubj
14	destroys	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 heroine	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 point	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 point	amod
17	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 destroys	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	23 test	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 test	det
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 test	punct
21	Shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 marriage	compound
22	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 test	compound
23	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 point	nmod
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 destroys	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 original	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 original	cc
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 original	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 original	advmod
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 original	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 original	cop
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 original	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 original	det
33	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gift	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 originated	punct
35	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	37 originated	advmod
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 originated	nsubj
37	originated	originate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 original	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the golden shoes	a gift	of the hero to the heroine	tree rules
2	destroy	present	the heroine	the whole point of the marriage test		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Patient
3	not is	can · perfect			original property	tree rules
4	originate	past	shoe		wherever property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	point			the marriage test		nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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