The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 10
It happened that the King’s son gave a ball, and invited all persons of fashion to it.
Who acts: It, son · What happens: happen, give, invite · To what, where: ball, persons, fashion
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, son), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 gave | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 King | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ball | det |
| 10 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 invited | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 invited | cc |
| 13 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 persons | det |
| 15 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 invited | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fashion | case |
| 17 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 persons | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 invited | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | past | the King's son | a ball | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | ||||
| 3 | invite | past | all persons of fashion | fashion | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Recipient |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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