The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 88
The gentleman who was sent to try the slipper looked earnestly at Cinderella, and, finding her very handsome, said:
Who acts: gentleman · What happens: send, try, look, find, say · To what, where: gentleman, slipper, handsome · 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 (gentleman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gentleman | det |
| 2 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | aux:pass |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gentleman | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 try | mark |
| 7 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sent | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 slipper | det |
| 9 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 try | obj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 10 looked | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Cinderella | case |
| 13 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 finding | punct |
| 17 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 said | ccomp |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 handsome | nmod:poss |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 handsome | advmod |
| 20 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 finding | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 finding | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | parataxis |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | the gentleman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | the gentleman not said here | the slipper | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slipper=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | look | past | the gentleman | at Cinderella; earnestly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cinderella=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | gerund | Cinderella's handsome | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handsome=Topic | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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