The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 83

What they said was very true; for a few days after the King’s son caused it to be proclaimed, by sound of trumpet, that he would marry her whose foot the slipper would just fit.

Who acts: ladies, few days, sound, son, slipper · What happens: say, be, cause, proclaim, marry, fit · To what, where: twelve, Cinderella, foot · 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, few days, sound, 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 true	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 true	advmod
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 days	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 days	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 days	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 days	amod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 caused	nsubj
12	after	after	ADP	_	16 son	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 son	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 King	case
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 days	nmod
17	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 true	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 caused	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	21 proclaimed	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 proclaimed	aux:pass
21	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 caused	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sound	punct
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 sound	case
24	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 proclaimed	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 trumpet	case
26	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sound	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 marry	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 marry	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 marry	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 marry	aux
31	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 true	parataxis
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 marry	obj
33	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	34 foot	nmod:poss
34	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 marry	obj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 slipper	det
36	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fit	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 fit	aux
38	just	just	ADV	_	39 fit	advmod
39	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 foot	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	ladies = lady			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past			true property	tree rules
3	cause	past	a few days after the King's son	twelve		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient
4	proclaim	to-infinitive · passive	sound of trumpet			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	marry	would	son	Cinderella		tree rules
6	fit	would	the slipper	foot not said here		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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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