The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 81
When the two sisters returned from the ball Cinderella asked them: If they had been well diverted, and if the fine lady had been there.
Who acts: two sisters, Cinderella, fine lady · What happens: return, ask, divert, be · To what, where: ball, sisters
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 (two sisters, Cinderella, fine lady), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sisters | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sisters | nummod |
| 4 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 ball | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ball | det |
| 8 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 9 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 diverted | punct |
| 13 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 diverted | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 diverted | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 diverted | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 diverted | aux:pass |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 diverted | advmod |
| 18 | diverted | divert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 asked | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 there | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 there | cc |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 there | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lady | det |
| 23 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lady | amod |
| 24 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 there | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 there | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 there | cop |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 diverted | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the two sisters | the ball | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ball=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Cinderella | sisters = sister | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | divert a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | sisters = sister | well property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | the fine lady | there property | 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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