The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 85
Cinderella, who saw all this, and knew her slipper, said to them, laughing:
Who acts: Cinderella · What happens: see, know, say, laugh · To what, where: this, slipper, slippers · 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 (Cinderella), 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 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 this | det:predet |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 knew | cc |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 slipper | nmod:poss |
| 11 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knew | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laughing | punct |
| 17 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 said | advcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 laughing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Cinderella | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Cinderella not said here | Cinderella's slipper | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer slipper=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Cinderella not said here | slippers = slipper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | laugh | gerund | Cinderella not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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