The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 34
Being at a loss for a coachman,
What happens: be · To what, where: loss
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: 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 loss | cop |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 loss | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 loss | det |
| 4 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 coachman | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 coachman | det |
| 7 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loss | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 loss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | a loss | for a coachman | tree rules |
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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