The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 15
“And I,” said the youngest, “shall have my usual petticoat; but then, to make amends for that, I will put on my gold-flowered manteau, and my diamond stomacher, which is far from being the most ordinary one in the world.”
Who acts: I, diamond stomacher · What happens: say, have, make, put, flower, be · To what, where: usual petticoat, amends, flowered manteau, world · 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, diamond stomacher), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 I | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 I | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 I | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 youngest | det |
| 8 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 youngest | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 petticoat | nmod:poss |
| 14 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 petticoat | amod |
| 15 | petticoat | petticoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 make | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 make | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 22 | amends | amend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 that | case |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 make | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 put | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 put | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 put | aux |
| 28 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 make | parataxis |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 manteau | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 manteau | nmod:poss |
| 31 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 flowered | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 gold | punct |
| 33 | flowered | flower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 manteau | amod |
| 34 | manteau | manteau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 put | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 stomacher | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 stomacher | cc |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 stomacher | nmod:poss |
| 38 | diamond | diamond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 stomacher | amod |
| 39 | stomacher | stomacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | parataxis |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 one | punct |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 one | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 one | cop |
| 43 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 49 one | advmod |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 49 one | case |
| 45 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 49 one | cop |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 one | det |
| 47 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 48 ordinary | advmod |
| 48 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 one | amod |
| 49 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 stomacher | appos |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 world | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 world | det |
| 52 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 one | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 stomacher | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 stomacher | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | shall | I not said here | my usual petticoat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petticoat=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | amends | then | for that | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent amend=Product for that=Asset | |||
| 4 | put in a quote | future | I | my flowered manteau | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on manteau=Destination | ||||
| 5 | flower in a quote | participle | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | my diamond stomacher | the world | from the ordinary one; far 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 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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