The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 35
“I will go and see,” says Cinderella, “if there is never a rat in the rat-trap--we may make a coachman of him.”
Who acts: Cinderella, we · What happens: go, see, say, not be, make · To what, where: rat, rat trap, coachman · 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, we), 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 | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 see | cc |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rat | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 rat | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 is | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 rat | cop |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 rat | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rat | det |
| 18 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Cinderella | appos |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 trap | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trap | det |
| 21 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trap | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 rat | punct |
| 23 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rat | nmod |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 make | punct |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 make | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 make | aux |
| 27 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 coachman | det |
| 29 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 make | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 coachman | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 make | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | Cinderella | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | Cinderella not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Cinderella | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | a rat | the rat trap | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | may | we | a coachman of horse | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coachman=Product |
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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