The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 9
However, Cinderella, notwithstanding her mean apparel, was a hundred times handsomer than her sisters, though they were always dressed very richly.
Who acts: Cinderella · What happens: notwithstand, be, dress · To what, where: mean apparel, 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 (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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 notwithstanding | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 notwithstanding | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 notwithstanding | punct |
| 5 | notwithstanding | notwithstand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 handsomer | advcl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 apparel | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 apparel | amod |
| 8 | apparel | apparel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 notwithstanding | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 notwithstanding | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 handsomer | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hundred | det |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 times | nummod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 handsomer | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | handsomer | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 sisters | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 handsomer | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dressed | punct |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 23 dressed | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dressed | aux:pass |
| 22 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 dressed | advmod |
| 23 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 handsomer | advcl |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 richly | advmod |
| 25 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 23 dressed | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 handsomer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notwithstand | gerund | Cinderella | Cinderella's mean apparel | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | time | than Cinderella's sisters; handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dress | past · passive | sisters = sister | always, richly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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