The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 16

They sent for the best tire-woman they could get to make up their head-dresses and adjust their double pinners, and they had their red brushes and patches from Mademoiselle de la Poche.

Who acts: amends · What happens: send, get, make up, adjust, have · To what, where: best tire woman, head dresses, double pinners, red brushes, Mademoiselle

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 (amends), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	8 woman	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 woman	amod
6	tire	tire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woman	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 tire	punct
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 get	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 woman	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 make	compound:prt
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 dresses	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dresses	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 head	punct
18	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 adjust	cc
20	adjust	adjust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 make	conj
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 pinners	nmod:poss
22	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pinners	amod
23	pinners	pinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 adjust	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 brushes	nmod:poss
29	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 brushes	amod
30	brushes	brush	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 had	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 patches	cc
32	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 brushes	conj
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 Mademoiselle	case
34	Mademoiselle	Mademoiselle	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 had	obl
35	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	34 Mademoiselle	flat:foreign
36	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	34 Mademoiselle	conj
37	Poche	Poche	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 la	flat
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	amends = amend			for the best tire woman	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	get	could	amends = amend	the best tire woman not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
3	make up	to-infinitive	amends = amend not said here	amends's head dresses			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dress=Pivot
4	adjust	infinitive	amends = amend not said here	amends's double pinners			vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinner=Patient
5	have	past	amends = amend	amends's red brushes and patches	Mademoiselle		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=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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