Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 87

One thought it would fit her if she cut a little from her great toe; and another, with too short a foot, put something in the tip of her stocking.

Who acts: One, material, woman · What happens: think, fit, cut, put · To what, where: woman, little, great toe, something, tip · 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 (One, material, woman), 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	One	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fit	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fit	aux
5	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fit	obj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 cut	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cut	nsubj
9	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fit	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 little	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cut	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 toe	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 toe	nmod:poss
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 toe	amod
15	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 short	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 short	cc
18	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	22 short	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 short	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 short	case
21	too	too	ADV	_	22 short	advmod
22	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 foot	det
24	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 short	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
26	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 short	parataxis
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 put	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 tip	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tip	det
30	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 stocking	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 stocking	nmod:poss
33	stocking	stocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tip	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	One			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	fit	would	material	woman		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	cut a condition, not said to happen	past	woman	a little	woman's great toe	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent little=Product from toe=Material
4	put	infinitive		something	the tip of woman's stocking	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent something=Theme in tip=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: «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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