--- title: The prince of Emania always kept the shoe; and when the young women… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by J --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/86/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [Fair, Brown, and Trembling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/) / 86 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:23:86 # text = 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. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Emania Emania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 6 advmod _ _ 6 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 hopes hope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 31 cc:preconj _ _ 31 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 32 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 33 cc _ _ 33 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 beat beat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 39 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 40 det _ _ 40 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 acl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 42 obl _ _ 45 material material NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj:pass _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj:pass _ _ 47 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux:pass _ _ 48 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/87/) - ↑ back to [Fair, Brown, and Trembling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/)