The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 73

The next day the two sisters were at the ball, and so was Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before.

Who acts: next day · What happens: be, dress · To what, where: ball, Cinderella

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 (next day), 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 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ball	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sisters	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sisters	nummod
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ball	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ball	cop
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 ball	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ball	det
10	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Cinderella	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Cinderella	cc
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 Cinderella	advmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Cinderella	cop
15	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 ball	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dressed	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 dressed	cc
18	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ball	parataxis
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 magnificently	advmod
20	magnificently	magnificently	ADV	_	18 dressed	advmod
21	than	than	ADP	_	22 before	case
22	before	before	ADV	_	20 magnificently	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 ball	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the next day		the ball		tree rules
2	is a	past		Cinderella			tree rules
3	dress	past				magnificently property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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