The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 77
She got home but quite out of breath, and in her nasty old clothes, having nothing left her of all her finery but one of the little slippers, fellow to that she dropped.
Who acts: Cinderella, nasty old clothes, fellow · What happens: get, have, leave, drop · To what, where: nothing, Cinderella, little slippers
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 (Cinderella, nasty old clothes, fellow), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 got | advmod |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 breath | cc |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 breath | advmod |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 breath | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 breath | case |
| 8 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clothes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 clothes | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 clothes | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 clothes | amod |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 clothes | amod |
| 15 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 left | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 having | punct |
| 17 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 clothes | conj |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 having | obj |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 left | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 finery | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 finery | det |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 finery | nmod:poss |
| 24 | finery | finery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | obl |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 one | cc |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 finery | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 slippers | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 slippers | det |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 slippers | amod |
| 30 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 one | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fellow | punct |
| 32 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 dropped | nsubj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 that | case |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 fellow | obl |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 dropped | nsubj |
| 36 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 slippers | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Cinderella | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | Cinderella's nasty old clothes not said here | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | Cinderella's nasty old clothes | Cinderella | of Cinderella's finery | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme she=Source of finery=Destination | |||
| 4 | drop | past | fellow | the little slippers not said here | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slipper=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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