The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 82
They told her: Yes, but that she hurried away immediately when it struck twelve, and with so much haste that she dropped one of her little glass slippers, the prettiest in the world, which the King’s son had taken up; that he had done nothing but look at her all the time at the ball, and that most certainly he was very much in love with the beautiful person who owned the glass slipper.
Who acts: ladies, Cinderella, ball, son, beautiful person · What happens: tell, hurry away, strike, drop, take up, do · To what, where: Cinderella, twelve, one, world, nothing, love · 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 (ladies, Cinderella, ball, son), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
| 5 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 told | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hurried | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 hurried | cc |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 hurried | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hurried | nsubj |
| 10 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 hurried | advmod |
| 12 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 10 hurried | advmod |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 struck | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 struck | nsubj |
| 15 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hurried | advcl |
| 16 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 struck | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dropped | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 dropped | cc |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 haste | case |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 haste | amod |
| 22 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dropped | obl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 dropped | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 dropped | nsubj |
| 25 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | parataxis |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 dropped | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 slippers | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 slippers | nmod:poss |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 slippers | amod |
| 30 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 slippers | compound |
| 31 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 one | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 prettiest | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 prettiest | det |
| 34 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 dropped | advcl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 world | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 world | det |
| 37 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 prettiest | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 taken | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 taken | obj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 King | det |
| 41 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 son | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 King | case |
| 43 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 taken | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 taken | aux |
| 45 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 world | acl:relcl |
| 46 | up | up | ADP | _ | 45 taken | compound:prt |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 done | punct |
| 48 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 51 done | mark |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 done | nsubj |
| 50 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 done | aux |
| 51 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 told | parataxis |
| 52 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 51 done | obj |
| 53 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 54 look | cc |
| 54 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 done | conj |
| 55 | at | at | ADP | _ | 56 her | case |
| 56 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 look | obl |
| 57 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 59 time | det:predet |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 time | det |
| 59 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 look | obl:unmarked |
| 60 | at | at | ADP | _ | 62 ball | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 ball | det |
| 62 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 time | nmod |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 that | punct |
| 64 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 65 that | cc |
| 65 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 2 told | ccomp |
| 66 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 65 that | fixed |
| 67 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 73 love | advmod |
| 68 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 73 love | nsubj |
| 69 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 73 love | cop |
| 70 | very | very | ADV | _ | 71 much | advmod |
| 71 | much | much | ADV | _ | 73 love | advmod |
| 72 | in | in | ADP | _ | 73 love | case |
| 73 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 most | vocative |
| 74 | with | with | ADP | _ | 77 person | case |
| 75 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 77 person | det |
| 76 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 77 person | amod |
| 77 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 73 love | nmod |
| 78 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 79 owned | nsubj |
| 79 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 77 person | acl:relcl |
| 80 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 82 slipper | det |
| 81 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 82 slipper | compound |
| 82 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 79 owned | obj |
| 83 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | ladies = lady | Cinderella | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | hurry away | past | Cinderella | away, immediately property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | ball | twelve | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient | ||||
| 4 | drop | past | Cinderella | one of Cinderella's little glass slippers | with much haste | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 5 | take up | past · perfect | the King's son | the world | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 6 | do | past · perfect | son | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | look | present | son not said here | time | at Cinderella | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | |||
| 8 | is | past | son | love | with the beautiful person; certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | own | past | the beautiful person | the glass slipper | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot 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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