The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 70
“Ay, to be sure!” cried Miss Charlotte; “lend my clothes to such a dirty Cinderwench as thou art!
Who acts: Miss · What happens: be, cry, lend · To what, where: clothes, dirty Cinderwench · 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 (Miss), 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 | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 2 | Ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 6 sure | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sure | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | cop |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | Charlotte | Charlotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Miss | flat |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 lend | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 lend | punct |
| 14 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | parataxis |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 lend | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Cinderwench | case |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 Cinderwench | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Cinderwench | det |
| 20 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Cinderwench | amod |
| 21 | Cinderwench | Cinderwench | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lend | obl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 art | mark |
| 23 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 art | nsubj |
| 24 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lend | advcl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Miss | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lend in a quote | infinitive | my clothes | such dirty Cinderwench | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme to cinderwench=Recipient |
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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