Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 81

The feet of all the maidens were either too little or too large.

Who acts: feet · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet), 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 feet	det
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 little	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 maidens	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 maidens	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maidens	det
6	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feet	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 little	cop
8	either	either	CCONJ	_	10 little	cc:preconj
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 little	advmod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 large	cc
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 large	advmod
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 little	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 little	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the feet of all maidens					little property	tree rules
2	be		the feet of all maidens not said here						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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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