Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 141
Then she took her clumsy shoe off her left foot, and put on the golden slipper; and it fitted her as if it had been made for her.
Who acts: mother, foot · What happens: take, put, fit, make · To what, where: clumsy shoe, left foot, golden slipper, mother, foot
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 (mother, foot), 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 | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 5 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shoe | amod |
| 6 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 foot | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 foot | nmod:poss |
| 9 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 foot | amod |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 slipper | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 slipper | det |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 slipper | amod |
| 17 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 fitted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fitted | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fitted | nsubj |
| 21 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fitted | obj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 made | mark |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 made | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 made | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 made | aux:pass |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 fitted | advcl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | mother | mother's clumsy shoe | mother's left foot | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme off foot=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | put | participle | mother not said here | the golden slipper | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on slipper=Destination | ||||
| 3 | fit | past | foot | mother | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect · passive | foot | for mother | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material for she=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: «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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