The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 75
The Prince followed, but could not overtake her.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: follow, not overtake · To what, where: 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 (Prince), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 overtake | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 overtake | cc |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 overtake | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 overtake | advmod |
| 8 | overtake | overtake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 overtake | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the Prince | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not overtake | could | Cinderella | tree rules |
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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