Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 101
The prince of Emania looked at her and said: "You are the woman the shoe fits, and you are the woman I took the shoe from."
Who acts: prince, You, shoe · What happens: look, say, be, fit, take · To what, where: woman, shoe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, You, shoe), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Emania | case |
| 4 | Emania | Emania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 prince | nmod |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 fits | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 woman | punct |
| 12 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 woman | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 woman | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fits | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shoe | det |
| 17 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fits | nsubj |
| 18 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 woman | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 woman | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 woman | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 woman | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 woman | det |
| 24 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fits | obl |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 took | nsubj |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 woman | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shoe | det |
| 28 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | obj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 took | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the prince of Emania | at sister | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince of Emania not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | You | the woman | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fit in a quote | present | the shoe | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | you | the woman | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | take in a quote | past | the prince of Emania = prince | the shoe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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