The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 31

Cinderella went immediately to gather the finest she could get, and brought it to her godmother, not being able to imagine how this pumpkin could make her go to the ball.

Who acts: Cinderella, pumpkin · What happens: go, gather, get, bring, not be, imagine · To what, where: finest, pumpkin, godmother, Cinderella, ball

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, pumpkin), 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	Cinderella	cinderella	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 gather	mark
5	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 finest	det
7	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 gather	obj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 get	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 get	aux
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 finest	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 brought	cc
13	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brought	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 godmother	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 godmother	nmod:poss
17	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 able	punct
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 able	advmod
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 able	cop
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 brought	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 imagine	mark
23	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	xcomp
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 make	advmod
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 pumpkin	det
26	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 make	aux
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 imagine	ccomp
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 make	obj
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 make	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 ball	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ball	det
33	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 go	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Cinderella			immediately property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	gather	to-infinitive	Cinderella not said here	the finest			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Theme
3	get	could	Cinderella				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	bring	past		pumpkin	Cinderella's godmother		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to godmother=Destination
5	not is	gerund				able property	tree rules
6	imagine	to-infinitive					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	make	could	this pumpkin	Cinderella			tree rules
8	go	infinitive	Cinderella not said here		the ball		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial_Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/11/31/