Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 89

The two sisters, Fair and Brown, heard that the princes of the world were looking all over Erin for the woman that could wear the shoe, and every day they were talking of trying it on; and one day Trembling spoke up and said: "Maybe it's my foot that the shoe will fit."

Who acts: two sisters, princes, woman, one day, world, shoe · What happens: hear, look, wear, talk, try on, tremble · To what, where: Erin, shoe, world, foot · 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 (two sisters, princes, woman, one day), 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	3 sisters	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 sisters	nummod
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heard	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Fair	punct
5	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sisters	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Brown	cc
7	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fair	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sisters	punct
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 looking	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princes	det
12	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 looking	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 world	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 princes	nmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 looking	aux
17	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 heard	ccomp
18	all	all	ADV	_	20 Erin	advmod
19	over	over	ADP	_	20 Erin	case
20	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 looking	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 woman	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 woman	det
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looking	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 wear	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 wear	aux
26	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 woman	acl:relcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shoe	det
28	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wear	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 talking	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 talking	cc
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 talking	obl:unmarked
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 talking	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 talking	aux
35	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 heard	advcl
36	of	of	SCONJ	_	37 trying	mark
37	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 talking	advcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 trying	obj
39	on	on	ADP	_	37 trying	compound:prt
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 spoke	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 spoke	cc
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 day	nummod
43	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 spoke	nsubj
44	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 day	acl
45	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	parataxis
46	up	up	ADP	_	45 spoke	compound:prt
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 said	cc
48	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 spoke	conj
49	:	:	PUNCT	_	55 foot	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 foot	punct
51	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	55 foot	advmod
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 foot	nsubj
53	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 foot	cop
54	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 foot	nmod:poss
55	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 said	ccomp
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 fit	mark
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 shoe	det
58	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 fit	nsubj
59	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 fit	aux
60	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 foot	advcl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the two sisters					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	look	past · progressive	the princes of the world		Erin		for the woman	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent over erin=Location for woman=Theme
3	wear	could	the woman	the shoe				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
4	talk	past · progressive	princes = prince			day		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	try on	gerund	princes = prince not said here	world				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	tremble	gerund	one day not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	speak up speech: other	past	one day					vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	say speech: assert	past	one day not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	is a in a quote	present	world	my foot			maybe property	tree rules
10	fit in a quote	future	the shoe					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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