The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 38
The fairy made choice of one of the three which had the largest beard, and, having touched him with her wand, he was turned into a fat, jolly coachman, who had the smartest whiskers eyes ever beheld.
Who acts: fairy, having, fat jolly coachman · What happens: make, have, touch, turn, behold · To what, where: choice, largest beard, fairy, fat jolly coachman, whiskers eyes
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 (fairy, having, fat jolly coachman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fairy | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 choice | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 three | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 three | det |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 three | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beard | det |
| 13 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 beard | amod |
| 14 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 touched | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 touched | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 having | punct |
| 18 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 touched | csubj |
| 19 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 touched | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 wand | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 touched | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 turned | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 turned | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 turned | aux:pass |
| 27 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 made | conj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 coachman | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 coachman | det |
| 30 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 coachman | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 coachman | punct |
| 32 | jolly | jolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 coachman | amod |
| 33 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 turned | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 had | punct |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 had | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 coachman | parataxis |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 whiskers | det |
| 38 | smartest | smart | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 whiskers | amod |
| 39 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 eyes | compound |
| 40 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 had | obj |
| 41 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 42 beheld | advmod |
| 42 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 eyes | acl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the fairy | choice of one of the three | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Product | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the largest beard | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | touch | past | having | fairy | with Cinderella's wand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with wand=Instrument | |||
| 5 | turn | past · passive | fairy | a fat jolly coachman | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into coachman=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | have | past | a fat jolly coachman | whiskers eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 7 | behold | participle | whiskers eyes not said here | ever | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
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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