The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 63
“If thou hadst been at the ball,” said one of her sisters, “thou wouldst not have been tired with it.
Who acts: thou · What happens: be, say, not be · To what, where: ball, one · 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 (thou), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 ball | mark |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 ball | nsubj |
| 4 | hadst | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ball | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 ball | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 ball | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ball | det |
| 8 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ball | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ball | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 said | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sisters | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tired | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 tired | punct |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 tired | nsubj |
| 19 | wouldst | would | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 23 tired | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 tired | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tired | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 tired | cop |
| 23 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tired | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect | thou | the ball | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one of amusing's sisters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | would · perfect | thou | with ball; tired 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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