The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 93

And now her two sisters found her to be that fine, beautiful lady whom they had seen at the ball.

Who acts: two sisters, that, sisters · What happens: find, be, see · To what, where: Cinderella, fine beautiful lady, ball

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 (two sisters, that, sisters), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 found	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 found	advmod
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sisters	nmod:poss
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sisters	nummod
5	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	14 lady	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 lady	cop
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 lady	nsubj
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lady	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fine	punct
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lady	amod
14	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	advcl
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 seen	obj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seen	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seen	aux
18	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 lady	acl:relcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 ball	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ball	det
21	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seen	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	find	past	Cinderella's two sisters	Cinderella		now	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	is a	to-infinitive	that	fine beautiful lady			tree rules
3	see	past · perfect	sisters = sister	fine beautiful lady	the ball		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus

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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