The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 48

She promised her godmother she would not fail of leaving the ball before midnight; and then away she drives, scarce able to contain herself for joy.

Who acts: Cinderella · What happens: promise, not fail, leave, drive, contain · To what, where: godmother, ball, Cinderella · 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), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 godmother	nmod:poss
4	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fail	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fail	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 fail	advmod
8	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	ccomp
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 leaving	mark
10	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 fail	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ball	det
12	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaving	obj
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 midnight	case
14	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaving	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 drives	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 then	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 drives	advmod
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 then	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 drives	nsubj
20	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 able	punct
22	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 able	amod
23	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 drives	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 contain	mark
25	contain	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 able	xcomp
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 contain	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 joy	case
28	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 contain	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Cinderella	Cinderella's godmother			vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent godmother=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not fail	would	Cinderella				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	leave	gerund	Cinderella not said here	the ball	midnight		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
4	drive	present	Cinderella		then		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	contain	to-infinitive	Cinderella not said here	Cinderella		for joy	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=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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