The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 90

He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.

Who acts: gentleman, handsome · What happens: oblige, sit down, put, find, go, fit · To what, where: Cinderella, 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, handsome), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 obliged	nsubj
2	obliged	oblige	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 obliged	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sit	mark
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 obliged	xcomp
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 sit	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 putting	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 putting	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 putting	punct
10	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sit	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 slipper	det
12	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 putting	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 foot	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 foot	nmod:poss
15	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 putting	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	nsubj
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 obliged	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 found	ccomp
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 easily	case
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 easily	advmod
23	easily	easily	ADV	_	20 went	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fitted	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fitted	cc
26	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 obliged	parataxis
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fitted	obj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 made	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 made	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 made	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 made	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 made	aux:pass
33	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 fitted	advcl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 wax	case
35	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	oblige	past	gentleman	Cinderella		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cinderella=Patient clause=Result
2	sit down	to-infinitive	gentleman not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	put	gerund	gentleman not said here	the slipper	to Cinderella's foot	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent slipper=Goal
4	find	past	gentleman			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	go	past	handsome			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on easily=Location
6	fit	past		Cinderella		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
7	make	past · perfect · passive		handsome	of wax	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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