The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 24
At last the happy day came; they went to Court, and Cinderella followed them with her eyes as long as she could, and when she had lost sight of them, she fell a-crying.
Who acts: last happy day, amends, Cinderella · What happens: come, go, follow, lose, fall, cry · To what, where: Court, amends, sight
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 (last happy day, amends, Cinderella), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Court | case |
| 11 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 followed | cc |
| 14 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | nsubj |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 followed | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 followed | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 long | advmod |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 followed | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 could | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 could | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 long | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fell | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 fell | cc |
| 27 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 30 lost | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 lost | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 lost | aux |
| 30 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 fell | advcl |
| 31 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lost | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sight | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lost | punct |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 fell | nsubj |
| 36 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | parataxis |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 crying | det |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 a | punct |
| 39 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 fell | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the last happy day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | amends = amend | Court | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | Cinderella | amends = amend | with Cinderella's eyes; long property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect | Cinderella | sight of amends | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | Cinderella | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | gerund | Cinderella not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | sight | amends = amend | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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