The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 95
Cinderella took them up, and, as she embraced them, cried:
Who acts: Cinderella · What happens: take up, embrace, cry · To what, where: 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 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 and | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 embraced | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 embraced | nsubj |
| 10 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cried | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 embraced | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 embraced | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | Cinderella | sisters = sister | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | embrace | past | Cinderella | sisters = sister | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Cinderella not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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