Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 32
They fitted his feet as though they had been made for him.
Who acts: galoshes · What happens: fit, make · To what, where: feet, galoshes
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (galoshes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fitted | nsubj |
| 2 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 feet | nmod:poss |
| 4 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fitted | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 2 fitted | advmod |
| 6 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 10 made | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 made | aux:pass |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fitted | advcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | past | galoshes = galosh | pair's feet | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | galoshes = galosh | for pair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for he=Beneficiary |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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