The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 60

When she got home she ran to seek out her godmother, and, after having thanked her, she said she could not but heartily wish she might go next day to the ball, because the King’s son had desired her.

Who acts: amusing · What happens: get, run, seek out, thank, say, not go · To what, where: godmother, amusing, ball, son · 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 (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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 seek	mark
8	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ran	xcomp
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 seek	compound:prt
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 godmother	nmod:poss
11	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seek	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thanked	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thanked	punct
15	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 thanked	mark
16	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 thanked	aux
17	thanked	thank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 got	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thanked	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 go	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 go	advmod
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 go	cc
26	heartily	heartily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wish	amod
27	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 go	nsubj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 go	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
31	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 day	amod
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 go	obl:unmarked
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 ball	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ball	det
35	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 go	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 desired	punct
37	because	because	SCONJ	_	43 desired	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 King	det
39	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 son	nmod:poss
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 King	case
41	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 desired	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 desired	aux
43	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 said	conj
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 desired	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	amusing					home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	run	past	amusing						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	seek out	to-infinitive	amusing not said here	amusing's godmother					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent godmother=Theme
4	thank speech: thank	gerund · perfect	amusing not said here		amusing				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	amusing						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not go	might	amusing			the ball	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial_Location
7	desire	past · perfect · passive		the King's son					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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