The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 59

While Cinderella was thus amusing her sisters, she heard the clock strike eleven and three-quarters, whereupon she immediately made a courtesy to the company and hasted away as fast as she could.

Who acts: Cinderella, amusing · What happens: be, hear, make, haste away · To what, where: sisters, clock strike, courtesy

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, amusing), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 amusing	mark
2	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 amusing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 amusing	cop
4	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 amusing	advmod
5	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heard	nsubj
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sisters	nmod:poss
7	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 amusing	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 strike	det
12	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 strike	compound
13	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
14	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 strike	flat
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 quarters	cc
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 quarters	nummod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 three	punct
18	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 strike	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
20	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	23 made	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	nsubj
22	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	23 made	advmod
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 courtesy	det
25	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 company	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 company	det
28	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hasted	cc
30	hasted	haste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 made	conj
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 hasted	advmod
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 fast	advmod
33	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 hasted	advmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 could	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 could	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 fast	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Cinderella		Cinderella's sisters	amusing, thus property	tree rules
2	hear	past	amusing	the clock strike and three quarters			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer strike=Stimulus
3	make	past	Cinderella	a courtesy		to the company; immediately, whereupon property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courtesy=Product
4	haste away	past	Cinderella not said here			away, fast property	tree rules

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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