The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 150

The boots were very long and large; but as they were Fairies, they had the gift of becoming big and little, according to the legs of those who wore them; so that they fitted his feet and legs as well as if they had been made on purpose for him.

Who acts: boots, gift · What happens: be, have, become, accord, wear, fit · To what, where: gift, boots, feet, purpose

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boots, gift), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boots	det
2	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 long	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 large	cc
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 long	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 were	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 were	nsubj
12	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 had	advcl
13	Fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 were	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 were	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gift	det
18	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 becoming	mark
20	becoming	become	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 gift	acl
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 becoming	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 little	cc
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 big	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 legs	punct
25	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 legs	case
26	to	to	ADP	_	25 according	fixed
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 legs	det
28	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 becoming	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 those	case
30	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 legs	nmod
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 wore	nsubj
32	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 those	acl:relcl
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 wore	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 fitted	punct
35	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 fitted	mark
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 so	fixed
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 fitted	nsubj
38	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	parataxis
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 feet	nmod:poss
40	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 fitted	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 legs	cc
42	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 feet	conj
43	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	50 made	cc
44	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 as	fixed
45	as	as	ADP	_	43 as	fixed
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 made	mark
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 made	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 made	aux
49	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 made	aux:pass
50	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 fitted	conj
51	on	on	ADP	_	52 purpose	case
52	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 made	obl
53	for	for	ADP	_	54 him	case
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 purpose	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boots			long property	tree rules
2	be		the boots not said here				tree rules
3	be	past	boots = boot				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	boots = boot	the gift			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient
5	become	gerund	the gift not said here			accord the legs of those; big property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
7	wear	past		boots = boot			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source
8	fit	past	boots = boot	Fairy's feet and legs			vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
9	make a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		boots = boot	purpose for Fairy		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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