The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 10

He invited Cinderilla to sit down, and putting the slipper to her foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her, as if it had been made of wax.

Who acts: gentleman, Cinderilla, foot · What happens: invite, sit down, put, find, go, fit · To what, where: Cinderilla, slipper, foot · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (gentleman, Cinderilla, foot), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 invited	nsubj
2	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 invited	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sit	mark
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 invited	xcomp
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 sit	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 putting	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 putting	cc
9	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sit	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 slipper	det
11	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 putting	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 foot	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 foot	nmod:poss
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 putting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 found	nsubj
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 invited	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	ccomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 easily	case
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 easily	advmod
22	easily	easily	ADV	_	19 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fitted	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fitted	cc
25	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 invited	parataxis
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fitted	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 made	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 made	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 made	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 made	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 made	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 made	aux:pass
33	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 fitted	parataxis
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 wax	case
35	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 invited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	invite	past	gentleman	Cinderilla		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cinderilla=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sit down not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cinderilla not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	put	gerund	Cinderilla not said here	the slipper	to Cinderilla's foot	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent slipper=Goal
4	find	past	gentleman			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	go	past	foot			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on easily=Location
6	fit	past		Cinderilla		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
7	make a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		foot	of wax	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: «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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