The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 125

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. 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	_	17 had	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 but	punct
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 fairies	case
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fairies	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fairies	cop
14	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fairies	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gift	det
19	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 becoming	mark
21	becoming	become	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 gift	acl
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 becoming	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 little	cc
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 big	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 legs	punct
26	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 legs	case
27	to	to	ADP	_	26 according	fixed
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 legs	det
29	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 becoming	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 those	case
31	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 legs	nmod
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 wore	nsubj
33	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 those	acl:relcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wore	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 fitted	punct
36	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	39 fitted	mark
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 so	fixed
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 fitted	nsubj
39	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	parataxis
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 feet	nmod:poss
41	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 fitted	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 legs	cc
43	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 feet	conj
44	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	39 fitted	advmod
45	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 as	fixed
46	as	as	ADP	_	44 as	fixed
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 made	mark
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 made	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 made	aux
50	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 made	aux:pass
51	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 fitted	advcl
52	on	on	ADP	_	53 purpose	case
53	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 made	obl
54	for	for	ADP	_	55 him	case
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 made	obl
56	.	.	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	is	past	boots = boot			as fairies	tree rules
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	ogre'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 ogre	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for he=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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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