Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 86

The prince of Emania always kept the shoe; and when the young women saw it, they had great hopes, for it was of proper size, neither large nor small, and it would beat any man to know of what material it was made.

Who acts: prince, young women, princes, place · What happens: keep, see, have, be, beat, know · To what, where: shoe, place, great hopes, man, material

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, young women, princes, place), 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	6 kept	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Emania	case
4	Emania	Emania	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 prince	nmod
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 kept	advmod
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shoe	det
8	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 saw	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 women	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 women	amod
14	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kept	conj
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hopes	amod
21	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 size	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	28 size	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 size	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 size	cop
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 size	case
27	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 size	amod
28	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 large	punct
30	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	31 large	cc:preconj
31	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 size	amod
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	33 small	cc
33	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 large	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 beat	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 beat	cc
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 beat	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 beat	aux
38	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 kept	advcl
39	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	40 man	det
40	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 beat	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 know	mark
42	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 man	acl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 what	case
44	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 know	obl
45	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 made	nsubj:pass
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 made	nsubj:pass
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 made	aux:pass
48	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 what	acl:relcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the prince of Emania	the shoe	always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
2	see	past	the young women	place		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	have	past	princes = prince	great hopes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient
4	is	past	place		for proper size	tree rules
5	beat	would	place	any man		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme
6	know	to-infinitive	place not said here	any man not said here	of any man	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of what=Stimulus
7	make	past · passive		material		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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