The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 17

Cinderella was likewise called up to them to be consulted in all these matters, for she had excellent notions, and advised them always for the best, nay, and offered her services to dress their heads, which they were very willing she should do.

Who acts: Cinderella, heads · What happens: call up, consult, have, advise, offer, dress · To what, where: Cinderella, amends, matters, excellent notions, services, heads

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 (Cinderella, heads), 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	Cinderella	cinderella	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	aux:pass
3	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	4 called	advmod
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 called	compound:prt
6	to	to	SCONJ	_	10 consulted	mark
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 consulted	nsubj:pass
8	to	to	PART	_	10 consulted	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 consulted	aux:pass
10	consulted	consult	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 called	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 matters	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 matters	det:predet
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 matters	det
14	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 consulted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 had	case
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 consulted	parataxis
19	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 notions	amod
20	notions	notion	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 had	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 advised	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 advised	cc
23	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	parataxis
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 advised	obj
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 advised	advmod
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 best	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 best	det
28	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 advised	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 nay	punct
30	nay	nay	INTJ	_	23 advised	discourse
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 offered	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 offered	cc
33	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 advised	conj
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 services	nmod:poss
35	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 offered	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 dress	mark
37	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 offered	advcl
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 heads	nmod:poss
39	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 dress	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 willing	punct
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 willing	nsubj
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 willing	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 willing	cop
44	very	very	ADV	_	45 willing	advmod
45	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 heads	conj
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 do	nsubj
47	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 do	aux
48	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 willing	xcomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call up speech: assert	past · passive		Cinderella		likewise property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	consult	to-infinitive · passive		amends = amend	all matters		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	have	past	Cinderella	excellent notions			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notion=Patient
4	advise speech: other	past		amends = amend		for the best; always property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	offer	past		Cinderella's services			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent service=Theme
6	dress	to-infinitive		amends's heads			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
7	is	past	amends's heads			willing property	tree rules
8	do	should	Cinderella				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	service		Cinderella				nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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