The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 80

Who said: They had seen nobody go out but a young girl, very meanly dressed, and who had more the air of a poor country wench than a gentlewoman.

Who acts: guards, nobody · What happens: say, see, go out, dress, have · To what, where: more air · 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 (guards, nobody), 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct
4	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seen	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 go	advcl
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
9	out	out	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 girl	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 girl	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	amod
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dressed	punct
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 meanly	advmod
16	meanly	meanly	ADV	_	17 dressed	advmod
17	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 go	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 air	amod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 air	det
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 wench	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 wench	det
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wench	amod
28	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wench	compound
29	wench	wench	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 air	nmod
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 gentlewoman	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 gentlewoman	det
32	gentlewoman	gentlewoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wench	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	past · perfect	guards = guard			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	go out	infinitive	nobody		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dress	participle	nobody not said here		meanly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	past		the more air of a poor country wench than a gentlewoman		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient

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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