Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 28

She put on her many-league boots, in which she covered an hour’s walk at every step, and it was not long before she overtook them.

Who acts: woman, walk, hour · What happens: put, cover, not be, overtake, walk · To what, where: league boots, walk, boots

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, walk, hour), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	8 boots	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 boots	nmod:poss
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 league	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 many	punct
7	league	league	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boots	compound
8	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 covered	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 covered	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 covered	nsubj
13	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hour	det
15	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walk	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 hour	case
17	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 step	case
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 step	det
20	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 long	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 long	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 long	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 long	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 long	advmod
26	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 put	advmod
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	29 overtook	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 overtook	nsubj
29	overtook	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 long	advcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 overtook	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	woman		woman's league boots		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on boot=Destination
2	cover	past	woman	a hour's walk		at every step	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent walk=Destination in which=Theme
3	not is	past	walk			long property	tree rules
4	overtake	past	woman	boots = boot			tree rules
5	walk		a hour				nom walk «act 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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