The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 37
Cinderella brought the trap to her, and in it there were three huge rats.
Who acts: Cinderella, three huge rats · What happens: bring, be · To what, where: trap, girl
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, three huge rats), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trap | det |
| 4 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 were | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 were | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 were | obl |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 were | expl |
| 12 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | conj |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 rats | nummod |
| 14 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rats | amod |
| 15 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 were | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Cinderella | the trap | girl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trap=Theme to she=Destination | |||
| 2 | be | past | three huge rats | trap; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=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.
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