The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 22

Anyone but Cinderella would have dressed their heads awry, but she was very good, and dressed them perfectly well They were almost two days without eating, so much were they transported with joy.

Who acts: Anyone, head, amends · What happens: dress, be, eat, transport · To what, where: amends, two days

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 (Anyone, head, 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	Anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 dressed	nsubj
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 Cinderella	cc
3	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Anyone	conj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 dressed	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 dressed	aux
6	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heads	nmod:poss
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 awry	nsubj
9	awry	awry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dressed	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 good	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 good	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 good	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 good	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 good	advmod
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dressed	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dressed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dressed	cc
18	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dressed	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dressed	obj
20	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	21 well	advmod
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 days	advmod
22	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 days	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 days	cop
24	almost	almost	ADV	_	25 two	advmod
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 days	nummod
26	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dressed	obl
27	without	without	SCONJ	_	28 eating	mark
28	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 dressed	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 transported	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADV	_	34 transported	advmod
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 transported	aux:pass
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 transported	nsubj:pass
34	transported	transport	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dressed	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 joy	case
36	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 transported	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dress	would · perfect	Anyone			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	head		good property	tree rules
3	dress	past	Anyone not said here	amends = amend		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	is a	past	amends = amend	two days	well property	tree rules
5	eat	gerund	Anyone not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	transport	past · passive		amends = amend	with joy	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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