The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 92
Thereupon, in came her godmother, who, having touched with her wand Cinderella’s clothes, made them richer and more magnificent than any of those she had before.
Who acts: godmother, Cinderella · What happens: come, have, touch, make · To what, where: slippers
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 (godmother, 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thereupon | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 came | case |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 godmother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 having | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 having | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 having | punct |
| 10 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 godmother | acl:relcl |
| 11 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 having | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 wand | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 touched | obl |
| 15 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Cinderella | case |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 wand | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | obj |
| 21 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 made | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 magnificent | cc |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 magnificent | advmod |
| 24 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 richer | conj |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 any | case |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 magnificent | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 those | case |
| 28 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 any | nmod |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 those | acl:relcl |
| 31 | before | before | ADV | _ | 30 had | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Cinderella's godmother | thereupon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | Cinderella's godmother | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | touch | participle | Cinderella's godmother not said here | with Cinderella's wand Cinderella's clothes | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Cinderella's godmother not said here | slippers = slipper | rich property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 5 | have | past | Cinderella | before property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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