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title: The golden shoes are a gift of the hero to the heroine which destroy… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The golden shoes are a gift of the hero to the heroine which destroys the whole point of the _Shoe marriage test_, and cannot have been in the original, wherever it originated. Who acts: golden shoes, heroine, shoe. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sincla
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# More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 61

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The golden shoes are a gift of the hero to the heroine which destroys the whole point of the \_Shoe marriage test\_, and cannot have been in the original, wherever it originated.

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**Who acts:** golden shoes, heroine, shoe · **What happens:** be, destroy, not be, originate, point · **To what, where:** gift, whole point, marriage test

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (golden shoes, heroine, shoe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:66:61
# text = The golden shoes are a gift of the hero to the heroine which destroys the whole point of the _Shoe marriage test_, and cannot have been in the original, wherever it originated.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	heroine	heroine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	destroys	destroy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	cop	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	originated	originate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the golden shoes | a gift |  |  |  | of the hero to the heroine | tree rules |
| 2 | **destroy** | present | the heroine | the whole point of the marriage test |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **is** | can · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | original *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **originate** | past | shoe |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **point** |  |  | the marriage test |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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