The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 121

He made me these shoes; they are so hard and tight that they hurt my feet, and I cannot manage to kick them off.'

Who acts: Jackal, shoes, I · What happens: make, be, hurt, not manage, not kick off · To what, where: shoes, me, feet

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jackal, shoes, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 shoes	det
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 hard	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hard	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hard	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 hard	advmod
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tight	cc
12	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hard	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 hurt	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hurt	nsubj
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hard	advcl
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 feet	nmod:poss
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hurt	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 manage	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 manage	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 manage	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 manage	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 manage	advmod
23	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 kick	mark
25	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 manage	xcomp
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kick	obj
27	off	off	ADP	_	25 kick	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 manage	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	Jackal	this shoes	me		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary shoe=Product
2	is	present	shoes = shoe			hard property	tree rules
3	be		shoes = shoe not said here				tree rules
4	hurt	past	shoes = shoe	my feet			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Patient
5	not manage	can	I				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	not kick off	to-infinitive	I not said here	feet = foot			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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