The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 51
Cinderilla went immediately to gather the finest she could get, and brought it to her godmother, not being able to imagine how this pumpkin could make her go to the ball.
Who acts: Cinderilla, Run, pumpkin · What happens: go, gather, get, bring, not be, imagine · To what, where: finest, pumpkin, godmother, Run, ball
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cinderilla, Run, pumpkin), 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 | Cinderilla | Cinderilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 gather | mark |
| 5 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 finest | det |
| 7 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 gather | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 get | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | aux |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 finest | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brought | cc |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 godmother | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 godmother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 able | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 able | advmod |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 able | cop |
| 21 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brought | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 imagine | mark |
| 23 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 able | xcomp |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 make | advmod |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 pumpkin | det |
| 26 | pumpkin | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | aux |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 imagine | ccomp |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 make | xcomp |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 ball | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ball | det |
| 33 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 go | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Cinderilla | immediately property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gather | to-infinitive | Cinderilla not said here | the finest | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | could | Run | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | bring | past | pumpkin | Run's godmother | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to godmother=Destination | ||||
| 5 | not is | gerund | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | imagine | to-infinitive | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | make | could | this pumpkin | Run | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | go | infinitive | Run not said here | the ball | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial_Location |
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: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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