The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 6

She employed her in the meanest work of the house: she scoured the dishes, tables, etc., and scrubbed madam’s chamber, and those of misses, her daughters; she lay up in a sorry garret, upon a wretched straw bed, while her sisters lay in fine rooms, with floors all inlaid, upon beds of the very newest fashion, and where they had looking-glasses so large that they might see themselves at their full length from head to foot.

Who acts: mother, sisters, daughters, house · What happens: employ, scour, scrub, lie up, lay, inlay · To what, where: girl, meanest work, dishes, sorry garret, fine rooms, looking glasses

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 (mother, sisters, daughters, house), 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 employed	nsubj
2	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 employed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 work	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 work	det
6	meanest	mean	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 work	amod
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 employed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 scoured	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 scoured	nsubj
13	scoured	scour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 employed	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dishes	det
15	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 scoured	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tables	punct
17	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dishes	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 etc.	punct
19	etc.	etc.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	15 dishes	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 chamber	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 chamber	cc
22	scrubbed	scrub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 madam	amod
23	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 chamber	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 madam	case
25	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 scoured	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 those	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 those	cc
28	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 scoured	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 misses	case
30	misses	miss	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 those	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 those	punct
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 daughters	nmod:poss
33	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 those	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 lay	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lay	nsubj
36	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 employed	parataxis
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 lay	compound:prt
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 garret	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 garret	det
40	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 garret	amod
41	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lay	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 bed	punct
43	upon	upon	ADP	_	47 bed	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 bed	det
45	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 bed	amod
46	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 bed	compound
47	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lay	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 lay	punct
49	while	while	SCONJ	_	52 lay	mark
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 sisters	nmod:poss
51	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 lay	nsubj
52	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 lay	parataxis
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 rooms	case
54	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 rooms	amod
55	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 lay	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 floors	punct
57	with	with	ADP	_	58 floors	case
58	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 lay	obl
59	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	58 floors	nmod
60	inlaid	inlay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 all	acl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 beds	punct
62	upon	upon	ADP	_	63 beds	case
63	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 inlaid	obl
64	of	of	ADP	_	68 fashion	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 fashion	det
66	very	very	ADV	_	67 newest	advmod
67	newest	new	ADJ	Degree=Sup	68 fashion	amod
68	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 beds	nmod
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	78 large	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	78 large	cc
71	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	73 had	advmod
72	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 had	nsubj
73	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	78 large	conj
74	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	76 glasses	amod
75	-	-	PUNCT	_	74 looking	punct
76	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	73 had	obj
77	so	so	ADV	_	78 large	advmod
78	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 lay	advcl
79	that	that	SCONJ	_	82 see	mark
80	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	82 see	nsubj
81	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	82 see	aux
82	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	78 large	advcl
83	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	82 see	obj
84	at	at	ADP	_	87 length	case
85	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	87 length	nmod:poss
86	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	87 length	amod
87	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 see	obl
88	from	from	ADP	_	89 head	case
89	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	87 length	nmod
90	to	to	ADP	_	91 foot	case
91	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	87 length	nmod
92	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 employed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	employ	past	mother	girl	the meanest work of the house		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	scour	past	mother	the dishes and tables and etc.		scrubbed madam's chamber obl	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dish=Theme
3	scrub	participle					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
4	lie up	past	mother		a sorry garret	upon a wretched straw bed	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garret=Location
5	lay	present	mother's sisters		fine rooms	with floors all	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in room=Destination
6	inlay	participle				upon beds of the newest fashion	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
7	have	past	daughters = daughter	looking glasses			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient
8	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
9	see	might	daughters = daughter	daughters = daughter	daughters's full length from head to foot		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus
10	work		the house				nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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