The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 56

The King’s son conducted her to the most honorable seat, and afterward took her out to dance with him; she danced so very gracefully that they all more and more admired her.

Who acts: son, silence, ladies · What happens: conduct, take out, dance, all, admire · To what, where: silence, honorable seat, more

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 (son, silence, ladies), 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 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 King	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conducted	nsubj
5	conducted	conduct	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 conducted	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 seat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 seat	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 honorable	advmod
10	honorable	honorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seat	amod
11	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conducted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
14	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	15 took	advmod
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 conducted	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	15 took	compound:prt
18	to	to	PART	_	19 dance	mark
19	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 took	advcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dance	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 danced	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 danced	nsubj
24	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 conducted	conj
25	so	so	ADV	_	24 danced	advmod
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 gracefully	advmod
27	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	_	24 danced	advmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 all	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 all	nsubj
30	all	all	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 danced	advcl
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 all	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 admired	cc
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 admired	advmod
34	admired	admire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 more	conj
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 admired	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 conducted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	conduct	past	the King's son	silence	the honorable seat		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to seat=Destination
2	take out	past	the King's son not said here	silence		afterward property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	dance	to-infinitive	the King's son not said here			with son	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dance	past	silence			gracefully property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	all	present	ladies = lady	more			tree rules
6	admire	past	ladies = lady not said here	silence			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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