The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 98
Cinderella, who was no less good than beautiful, gave her two sisters lodgings in the palace, and that very same day matched them with two great lords of the Court.
Who acts: Cinderella, same day · What happens: not be, give, match · To what, where: sisters lodgings, Court, palace, lodgings
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, same day), 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 | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 good | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 good | cop |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 good | advmod |
| 6 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 good | amod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Cinderella | amod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 beautiful | case |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 good | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cinderella | punct |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 sisters | nummod |
| 14 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lodgings | compound |
| 15 | lodgings | lodging | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gave | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lodgings | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 matched | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 matched | cc |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 day | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 same | advmod |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 day | amod |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 matched | nsubj |
| 25 | matched | match | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gave | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 matched | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 lords | case |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 lords | nummod |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lords | amod |
| 30 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 matched | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Court | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Court | det |
| 33 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lords | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Cinderella | than beautiful; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Cinderella | sisters lodgings | Court | the palace | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient lodging=Theme | ||
| 3 | match | past | that same day | lodgings = lodging | with two great lords of the Court | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient with lord=Co-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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