The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 1

When the two sisters returned from the ball, Cinderilla asked them if they had been well diverted, and if the fine lady had been there.

Who acts: two sisters, Cinderilla, fine lady · What happens: return, ask, divert, be · To what, where: ball, sisters

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"]. 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, Cinderilla, fine lady), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 returned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sisters	nummod
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 returned	nsubj
5	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	advcl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 ball	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ball	det
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct
10	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	obj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 diverted	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 diverted	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 diverted	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 diverted	aux:pass
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 diverted	advmod
18	diverted	divert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 asked	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 there	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 there	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 there	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lady	det
23	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lady	amod
24	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 there	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 there	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 there	cop
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 asked	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past	the two sisters			the ball		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ball=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	Cinderilla		sisters = sister			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	divert a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		sisters = sister			well property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the fine lady				there property	tree rules

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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