The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 74

The King’s son was always by her, and never ceased his compliments and kind speeches to her; to whom all this was so far from being tiresome that she quite forgot what her godmother had recommended to her; so that she, at last, counted the clock striking twelve when she took it to be no more than eleven; she then rose up and fled, as nimble as a deer.

Who acts: son, Cinderella, clock · What happens: be, not cease, forget, recommend, count, strike · To what, where: compliments, Cinderwench, godmother, Cinderella, clock, twelve

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 (son, Cinderella, clock), 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	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 King	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 her	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 her	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 her	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ceased	nsubj:outer
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ceased	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ceased	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 ceased	advmod
12	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 compliments	nmod:poss
14	compliments	compliment	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ceased	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 speeches	cc
16	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 speeches	amod
17	speeches	speech	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 compliments	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ceased	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 tiresome	punct
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 whom	case
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 tiresome	obl
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 this	det:predet
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 whom	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 tiresome	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 far	advmod
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 tiresome	advmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 tiresome	case
29	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 tiresome	cop
30	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ceased	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 forgot	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 forgot	nsubj
33	quite	quite	ADV	_	34 forgot	advmod
34	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 tiresome	advcl
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 forgot	obj
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 godmother	nmod:poss
37	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 recommended	nsubj:pass
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 recommended	aux
39	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 what	acl:relcl
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 recommended	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 counted	punct
43	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	48 last	mark
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 so	fixed
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 last	nsubj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 last	punct
47	at	at	ADP	_	48 last	case
48	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 counted	advcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 last	punct
50	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ceased	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 clock	det
52	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 counted	obj
53	striking	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 clock	acl
54	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 striking	obj
55	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	57 took	advmod
56	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 took	nsubj
57	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 striking	advcl
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 took	obj
59	to	to	PART	_	64 eleven	mark
60	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	64 eleven	cop
61	no	no	ADV	_	64 eleven	advmod
62	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	64 eleven	advmod
63	than	than	ADP	_	62 more	fixed
64	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	57 took	advcl
65	;	;	PUNCT	_	68 rose	punct
66	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 rose	nsubj
67	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	68 rose	advmod
68	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ceased	conj
69	up	up	ADP	_	68 rose	compound:prt
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 fled	cc
71	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 rose	conj
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 nimble	punct
73	as	as	ADV	_	74 nimble	advmod
74	nimble	nimble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 fled	xcomp
75	as	as	ADP	_	77 deer	case
76	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	77 deer	det
77	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 nimble	obl
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King's son				by Cinderella; always property	tree rules
2	not cease	past	Cinderella	son's compliments and kind speeches	Cinderwench			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector compliment=Eventuality
3	is	past	Cinderella not said here				far, tiresome property	tree rules
4	forget	past	Cinderella					tree rules
5	recommend	past · perfect · passive		Cinderella's godmother	Cinderella			vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to she=Recipient
6	count	past	Cinderella not said here	the clock				vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Theme
7	strike	gerund	the clock not said here	twelve				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient
8	take	past	Cinderella	clock				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
9	not is a	to-infinitive	Cinderella not said here	eleven				tree rules
10	rise up	past	Cinderella			then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	flee	past	Cinderella not said here				nimble property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	compliment		son					nom compliment «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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