The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 29
“Well,” said her godmother, “be but a good girl, and I will contrive that thou shalt go.”
Who acts: godmother, thou · What happens: say, be, contrive, go · To what, where: good girl · 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 godmother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 girl | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 girl | punct |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 girl | cop |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 girl | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girl | amod |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 godmother | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 contrive | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 contrive | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 contrive | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 contrive | aux |
| 19 | contrive | contrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 go | nsubj |
| 22 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | aux |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 contrive | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 contrive | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 contrive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Cinderella's godmother but a good girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | infinitive | Cinderella's godmother but a good girl not said here | a good girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | contrive in a quote | future | Cinderella's godmother but a good girl = godmother | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | shall | thou | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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