The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 46
This done, she gave her a pair of glass slippers, the prettiest in the whole world.
Who acts: Cinderella · What happens: do, give · To what, where: This, pair, rest
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), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 gave | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pair | det |
| 8 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 slippers | case |
| 10 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slippers | compound |
| 11 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pair | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prettiest | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prettiest | det |
| 14 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 slippers | appos |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 world | amod |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prettiest | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | give | past | Cinderella | a pair of glass slippers | rest | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pair=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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