The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 7

The poor girl bore all patiently, and dared not tell her father, who would have rattled her off; for his wife governed him entirely.

Who acts: poor girl, wife · What happens: bear, tell, rattle off, govern · To what, where: father · 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 (poor girl, wife), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bore	nsubj
4	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 patiently	advmod
6	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	4 bore	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tell	cc
9	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 dared	advmod
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bore	conj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rattled	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rattled	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 rattled	nsubj:pass
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 rattled	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 rattled	aux
18	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 tell	ccomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rattled	obj
20	off	off	ADP	_	18 rattled	compound:prt
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 governed	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 governed	mark
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 governed	nsubj
25	governed	govern	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bore	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 governed	obj
27	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	25 governed	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bear	past	the poor girl		patiently property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	the poor girl not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	rattle off	would · perfect · passive		girl's father		tree rules
4	govern	past	father's wife	father	entirely property	vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=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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