The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 30
Then she took her into her chamber, and said to her, “Run into the garden, and bring me a pumpkin.”
Who acts: Cinderella · What happens: take, say, run, bring · To what, where: girl, chamber, Cinderella, garden, pumpkin, me · 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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 chamber | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 7 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Run | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Run | punct |
| 15 | Run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 garden | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 garden | det |
| 18 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Run | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bring | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bring | cc |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Run | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pumpkin | det |
| 24 | pumpkin | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bring | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Cinderella | girl | Cinderella's chamber | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into chamber=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Cinderella | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | run in a quote | infinitive | into the garden result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result | |||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | infinitive | a pumpkin | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination pumpkin=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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