The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 64

There came thither the finest princess, the most beautiful ever was seen with mortal eyes; she showed us a thousand civilities, and gave us oranges and citrons.”

Who acts: princess · What happens: come, see, show, give · To what, where: finest princess, thousand civilities, us, oranges

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 (princess), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 came	expl
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thither	thither	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
5	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 princess	amod
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seen	nsubj:pass
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 beautiful	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beautiful	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 beautiful	advmod
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 princess	acl:relcl
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 beautiful	advmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux:pass
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	parataxis
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 eyes	case
15	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 eyes	amod
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seen	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 showed	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 showed	nsubj
19	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 showed	iobj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thousand	det
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 civilities	nummod
23	civilities	civility	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 showed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gave	cc
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 gave	iobj
28	oranges	orange	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 gave	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 citrons	cc
30	citrons	citron	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 oranges	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past				there	thither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past · passive		the finest princess			with mortal eyes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	show	past	princess	thousand civilities	us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient civility=Topic
4	give	past		oranges and citrons	us			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient orange=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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