The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 20

“Alas!” said she, “you only jeer me; it is not for such as I am to go thither.”

Who acts: Cinderella, you, ball · What happens: say, jeer, not be, be · To what, where: Cinderella · 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 (Cinderella, you, ball), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 jeer	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 jeer	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 jeer	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 jeer	advmod
11	jeer	jeer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 jeer	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 such	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 such	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 such	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 such	advmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 such	case
18	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	5 said	conj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 go	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 go	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 go	cop
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 such	advcl
24	thither	thither	ADV	_	23 go	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cinderella			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	jeer in a quote	present	you	Cinderella		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	not is in a quote	present	ball		such property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	Cinderella		go, thither 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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