The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 65

Cinderella seemed very indifferent in the matter; indeed, she asked them the name of that princess; but they told her they did not know it, and that the King’s son was very uneasy on her account and would give all the world to know who she was.

Who acts: Cinderella, matters, son, princess · What happens: seem, ask, tell, not know, be, give · To what, where: name, matters, princess, account, world · 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 (Cinderella, matters, son, 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	Cinderella	cinderella	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 indifferent	advmod
4	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 matter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 matter	det
7	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 indifferent	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	12 asked	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 indeed	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	nsubj
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 name	det
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 princess	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 princess	det
18	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 name	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 know	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 know	advmod
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 told	ccomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 know	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 uneasy	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 uneasy	cc
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 uneasy	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 King	det
33	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 son	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 King	case
35	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 uneasy	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 uneasy	cop
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 uneasy	advmod
38	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 told	conj
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 account	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 account	nmod:poss
41	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 uneasy	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 give	cc
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 give	aux
44	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 uneasy	conj
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 world	det:predet
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 world	det
47	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 give	obj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 know	mark
49	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 give	advcl
50	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	49 know	ccomp
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 who	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 who	cop
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Cinderella				indifferent property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	Cinderella	the name of that princess	matters = matter		indeed property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	matters = matter		princess			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not know	past · do-support	matters = matter	name				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	is	past	the King's son			princess's account	uneasy property	tree rules
6	give	would	the King's son not said here	all world				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme
7	know	to-infinitive	the King's son not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is a	past	princess					tree rules
9	name			that princess				nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient
10	account		princess					nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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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