The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 26
“I wish I could--I wish I could--“; she was not able to speak the rest, being interrupted by her tears and sobbing.
Who acts: rest, Cinderella · What happens: wish, not be, speak, interrupt · To what, where: rest · 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 (rest, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wish | advcl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 could | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 wish | nsubj |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 could | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 wish | ccomp |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 able | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 able | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 able | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 able | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 able | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 able | advmod |
| 17 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wish | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 speak | mark |
| 19 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rest | det |
| 21 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 speak | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 interrupted | punct |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 interrupted | aux:pass |
| 24 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 rest | acl:relcl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 tears | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 tears | nmod:poss |
| 27 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 interrupted | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sobbing | cc |
| 29 | sobbing | sobbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tears | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | the rest = rest | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | the rest = rest | vn wish-62 «NP V that S»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | Cinderella | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | the rest | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | interrupt | gerund · passive | the rest not said here | by Cinderella's tears and sobbing | 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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