The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 27

This godmother of hers, who was a fairy, said to her, “Thou wishest thou couldst go to the ball; is it not so?”

Who acts: godmother, Thou · What happens: be, say, wish, go · To what, where: fairy, Cinderella, ball, godmother · 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 (godmother, Thou), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 godmother	det
2	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 hers	case
4	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 godmother	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fairy	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 fairy	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fairy	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fairy	det
9	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 godmother	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 godmother	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wishest	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 wishest	punct
16	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 wishest	nsubj
17	wishest	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
18	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 go	nsubj
19	couldst	could	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wishest	ccomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 ball	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ball	det
23	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 is	punct
25	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 is	expl
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 so	advmod
28	so	so	ADV	_	25 is	advmod
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 is	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	this godmother of Cinderella and a fairy	a fairy			tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	this godmother of Cinderella and a fairy		Cinderella		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	wish in a quote	present	Thou				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	go in a quote	could	thou			the ball	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial_Location
5	be in a quote	present		godmother			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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