The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 81

So all the waiting-maids, and all the womenkind in the castle had to come and try on the shoe, but there was not one whom it would fit.

Who acts: waiting maids, one, blood · What happens: have, come, try, be, fit · To what, where: 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 (waiting maids, one, blood), 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	_	15 had	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 maids	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maids	det
4	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 maids	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 waiting	punct
6	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 womenkind	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 womenkind	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 womenkind	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 womenkind	det
11	womenkind	womenkind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 maids	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 castle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 castle	det
14	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 womenkind	nmod
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 come	mark
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 try	cc
19	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 shoe	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shoe	det
22	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 try	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 was	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 was	cc
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 had	parataxis
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 one	advmod
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 was	nsubj
29	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 fit	obj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fit	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 fit	aux
32	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 one	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	have	past	all waiting maids all womenkind in the castle		tree rules
2	come	to-infinitive	all waiting maids all womenkind in the castle not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	infinitive	all waiting maids all womenkind in the castle not said here	the shoe	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	be	past	one	there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fit	would	blood		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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 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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