The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 32
Her godmother scooped out all the inside of it, having left nothing but the rind; which done, she struck it with her wand, and the pumpkin was instantly turned into a fine coach, gilded all over with gold.
Who acts: godmother, Cinderella · What happens: scoop out, have, leave, do, strike, turn · To what, where: inside, nothing, pumpkin, fine coach
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, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 godmother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scooped | nsubj |
| 3 | scooped | scoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 scooped | compound:prt |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 inside | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 inside | det |
| 7 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scooped | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 inside | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 having | punct |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 scooped | advcl |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 nothing | amod |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 having | obj |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 rind | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rind | det |
| 16 | rind | rind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nothing | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 done | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 done | nsubj |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 struck | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 struck | nsubj |
| 22 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scooped | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 struck | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 wand | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 struck | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 turned | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 turned | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pumpkin | det |
| 30 | pumpkin | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 turned | aux:pass |
| 32 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 33 turned | advmod |
| 33 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 struck | conj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 coach | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 coach | det |
| 36 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 coach | amod |
| 37 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 gilded | punct |
| 39 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 coach | acl |
| 40 | all | all | ADV | _ | 41 over | advmod |
| 41 | over | over | ADV | _ | 39 gilded | advmod |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 gold | case |
| 43 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 gilded | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scoop out | past | Cinderella's godmother | all inside of inside | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent inside=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | Cinderella's godmother not said here | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | strike | past | Cinderella | inside | with Cinderella's wand | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with wand=Instrument | |||
| 6 | turn | past · passive | the pumpkin | a fine coach | instantly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into coach=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | gild | participle | a fine coach not said here | with gold; over property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=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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