The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 12
They were mightily delighted at this invitation, and wonderfully busy in choosing out such gowns, petticoats, and head-clothes as might become them.
Who acts: misses, head clothes · What happens: be, choose out, become · To what, where: invitation, such gowns, misses
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 (misses, head clothes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 3 | mightily | mightily | ADV | _ | 4 delighted | advmod |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 invitation | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 invitation | det |
| 7 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 busy | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 busy | cc |
| 10 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 11 busy | advmod |
| 11 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 delighted | conj |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 choosing | mark |
| 13 | choosing | choose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 busy | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 choosing | compound:prt |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gowns | amod |
| 16 | gowns | gown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 choosing | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 petticoats | punct |
| 18 | petticoats | petticoat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gowns | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 clothes | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 clothes | cc |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 clothes | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 head | punct |
| 23 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 delighted | obl |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 become | mark |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 become | aux |
| 26 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 clothes | acl |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 become | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | misses = miss | this invitation | head clothes obl; delighted, mightily property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | misses = miss not said here | wonderfully property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | choose out | gerund | misses = miss not said here | such gowns and petticoats | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Theme | ||||
| 4 | become | might | head clothes not said here | misses = miss | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient they=Result |
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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