The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 5

It was brought to the two sisters, who did all they possibly could to thrust their feet into the slipper, but they could not effect it.

Who acts: two sisters, sisters, slippers · What happens: bring, do, thrust, not effect · To what, where: ball, two sisters, all, feet, slipper

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two sisters, sisters, slippers), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	aux:pass
3	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 sisters	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sisters	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sisters	nummod
7	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brought	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sisters	acl:relcl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 did	obj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thrust	nsubj
13	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	16 thrust	advmod
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 thrust	aux
15	to	to	PART	_	16 thrust	mark
16	thrust	thrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 all	acl:relcl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 feet	nmod:poss
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 thrust	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 slipper	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 slipper	det
21	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thrust	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 effect	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 effect	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 effect	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 effect	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 effect	advmod
27	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 effect	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past · passive		ball	the two sisters			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to sister=Destination
2	do	past	the two sisters	all				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
3	thrust	could	sisters = sister	sisters's feet		the slipper	possibly property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
4	not effect	could	slippers = slipper	ball				tree rules

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: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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