The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 14

“For my part,” said the eldest, “I will wear my red velvet suit with French trimming.”

Who acts: I · What happens: say, wear · To what, where: red velvet suit · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	For	for	ADP	_	4 part	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 part	nmod:poss
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 part	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 part	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eldest	det
9	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wear	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 wear	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 wear	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 wear	aux
14	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 suit	nmod:poss
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 suit	amod
17	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 suit	compound
18	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wear	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 trimming	case
20	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 trimming	amod
21	trimming	trimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 suit	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 wear	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past						for my part	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wear in a quote	future	I	my red velvet suit				with French trimming	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent suit=Theme

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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