The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 19
“Cinderella, would you not be glad to go to the ball?”
Who acts: you · What happens: not be, go · To what, where: ball
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 (you), 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 | _ | 2 Cinderella | punct |
| 2 | Cinderella | cinderella | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 glad | punct |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 glad | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 glad | nsubj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 glad | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 glad | cop |
| 8 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Cinderella | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 glad | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ball | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ball | det |
| 13 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cinderella | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cinderella | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | would | you | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the ball | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial_Location |
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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