The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 13

This was a new trouble to Cinderella; for it was she who ironed her sisters’ linen, and plaited their ruffles; they talked all day long of nothing but how they should be dressed.

Who acts: This, trouble, Cinderella, misses · What happens: be, iron, plait, talk, dress · To what, where: new trouble, Cinderella, linen, ruffles, misses

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 (This, trouble, Cinderella, misses), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 trouble	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trouble	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 trouble	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trouble	amod
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Cinderella	case
7	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 trouble	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 ironed	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 she	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 she	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 she	cop
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ironed	nsubj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 ironed	nsubj
14	ironed	iron	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trouble	parataxis
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sisters	nmod:poss
16	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 linen	nmod:poss
17	’	's	PART	_	16 sisters	case
18	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ironed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 plaited	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 plaited	cc
21	plaited	plait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ironed	conj
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 ruffles	nmod:poss
23	ruffles	ruffle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 plaited	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 talked	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 talked	nsubj
26	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ironed	conj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 day	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 talked	obl:unmarked
29	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 nothing	advmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 nothing	case
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 talked	obl
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 dressed	cc
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	37 dressed	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 dressed	nsubj:pass
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 dressed	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 dressed	aux:pass
37	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 talked	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 trouble	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	a new trouble	Cinderella			tree rules
2	is	past	trouble				for Cinderella	tree rules
3	iron	past	Cinderella	Cinderella's sisters's linen				vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=Patient
4	plait	past	Cinderella not said here	misses's ruffles				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruffle=Patient
5	talk	past	misses = miss			day	of nothing	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	dress	should · passive		misses = miss				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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