The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 97
She was conducted to the young prince, dressed as she was; he thought her more charming than ever, and, a few days after, married her.
Who acts: Cinderella, prince, few days · What happens: conduct, dress, be, think, marry · To what, where: Cinderella, young prince
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, prince, few days), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 conducted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 conducted | aux:pass |
| 3 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 prince | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 prince | amod |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 conducted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dressed | punct |
| 9 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 conducted | conj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 was | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 was | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dressed | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 conducted | parataxis |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | obj |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 charming | advmod |
| 18 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | obl |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 ever | case |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 thought | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 married | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 married | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 and | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 days | det |
| 25 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 days | amod |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 married | nsubj |
| 27 | after | after | ADV | _ | 26 days | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 days | punct |
| 29 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thought | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 married | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | past · passive | Cinderella | the young prince | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to prince=Destination | ||||
| 2 | dress | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | be | past | Cinderella | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | prince | Cinderella | charming obl | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | |||
| 5 | marry | past | a few days | Cinderella | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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