The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 75

So fair maidens and ugly maidens came thither from all regions, but there was none who had a foot so small that she could put on the gold shoe.

Who acts: fair maidens, none, Combland · What happens: come, be, have, put · To what, where: regions, foot, gold shoe

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair maidens, none, Combland), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
2	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maidens	amod
3	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 maidens	cc
5	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 maidens	amod
6	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 maidens	conj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	thither	thither	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 regions	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 regions	det
11	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 was	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	parataxis
16	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	15 was	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 none	acl:relcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 foot	det
20	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 small	advmod
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 had	xcomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 put	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 put	aux
26	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 small	advcl
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 shoe	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 shoe	det
29	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shoe	compound
30	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	fair maidens and ugly maidens		all regions	thither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from region=Initial_Location
2	be	past	none		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past		a foot		small property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
4	put	could	Combland		the gold shoe		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shoe=Destination

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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