The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 36

But the ring was so tiny that even those who had the smallest hands could only get it on their little fingers.

Who acts: ring, those · What happens: be, have, get · To what, where: smallest hands, claim, little fingers

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ring, those), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 tiny	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ring	det
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tiny	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tiny	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 tiny	advmod
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 get	mark
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 those	advmod
9	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 get	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 those	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hands	det
13	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 hands	amod
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 get	advmod
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tiny	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 get	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 fingers	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 fingers	nmod:poss
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fingers	amod
22	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 get	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tiny	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the ring			tiny property	tree rules
2	have	past		the smallest hands			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	get	could	those	claim	rings's little fingers		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme on finger=Source

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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