The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 61

As she was eagerly telling her godmother whatever had passed at the ball, her two sisters knocked at the door, which Cinderella ran and opened.

Who acts: amusing, two sisters, Cinderella · What happens: be, pass, knock, run, open · To what, where: whatever, ball, door

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, two sisters, Cinderella), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 telling	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 telling	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 telling	cop
4	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	5 telling	advmod
5	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 knocked	advcl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 godmother	nmod:poss
7	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 telling	obj
8	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 passed	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 passed	aux
10	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 godmother	acl:relcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 ball	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ball	det
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 telling	punct
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sisters	nmod:poss
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 sisters	nummod
17	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 knocked	nsubj
18	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 door	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knocked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ran	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 ran	obj
24	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 ran	nsubj
25	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 door	acl:relcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 opened	cc
27	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 ran	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	amusing			eagerly, tell property	tree rules
2	pass	past · perfect · passive		whatever	the ball		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme at ball=Destination
3	knock	past	amusing's two sisters			at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
4	run	past	Cinderella	the door			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory
5	open	past	Cinderella not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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