Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 116

Then both the sisters were overjoyed to hear it; for they had beautiful feet, and had no doubt that they could wear the golden slipper.

Who acts: sisters · What happens: overjoy, hear, have, wear · To what, where: sisters, wonder, beautiful feet, doubt, golden slipper

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 overjoyed	advmod
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sisters	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 overjoyed	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 overjoyed	aux:pass
6	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hear	mark
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 overjoyed	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hear	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 had	case
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 overjoyed	parataxis
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 feet	amod
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	conj
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 doubt	det
20	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 wear	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wear	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 wear	aux
24	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 doubt	acl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 slipper	det
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 slipper	amod
27	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wear	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 overjoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	overjoy	past · passive		both sisters	then	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive		wonder		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	have	past	sisters = sister	beautiful feet		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
4	have	past	sisters = sister not said here	no doubt		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient
5	wear	could	sisters = sister	the golden slipper		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent slipper=Theme

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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