The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 58

She went and sat down by her sisters, showing them a thousand civilities, giving them part of the oranges and citrons which the Prince had presented her with, which very much surprised them, for they did not know her.

Who acts: silence, civilities · What happens: go, sit down, show, give, present, surprise · To what, where: sisters, part, civilities, oranges, silence

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 (silence, civilities), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 sisters	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sisters	nmod:poss
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 showing	punct
10	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 showing	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thousand	det
13	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 civilities	nummod
14	civilities	civility	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 showing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 giving	punct
16	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 showing	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 giving	iobj
18	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 giving	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 oranges	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 oranges	det
21	oranges	orange	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 part	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 citrons	cc
23	citrons	citron	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 oranges	conj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 presented	nsubj:pass
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Prince	det
26	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 presented	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 presented	aux
28	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 oranges	acl:relcl
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 presented	obj
30	with	with	SCONJ	_	35 surprised	mark
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 surprised	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 surprised	obj
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 much	advmod
34	much	much	ADV	_	35 surprised	advmod
35	surprised	surprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 presented	advcl
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 surprised	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 know	punct
38	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 know	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 know	nsubj
40	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 know	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 know	advmod
42	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 surprised	conj
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 know	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	silence				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	past	silence not said here			by silence's sisters	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by sister=Location
3	show	gerund	silence not said here	sisters = sister			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient civility=Topic
4	give	gerund	silence not said here	part of the oranges and citrons	civilities = civility		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient part=Theme
5	present	past · perfect · passive		the oranges and citrons			tree rules
6	surprise	past		civilities = civility			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer they=Result
7	not know	past · do-support	civilities = civility	silence			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: 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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