The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 23

They broke above a dozen laces in trying to be laced up close, that they might have a fine slender shape, and they were continually at their looking-glass.

Who acts: amends · What happens: break, try, lace up, have, look, be · To what, where: dozen laces, fine slender shape, looking glass

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 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	above	above	ADP	_	6 laces	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dozen	det
5	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 laces	nummod
6	laces	lace	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 broke	obl
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 trying	mark
8	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 broke	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	11 laced	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 laced	aux:pass
11	laced	lace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 trying	xcomp
12	up	up	ADV	_	13 close	advmod
13	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 laced	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 laced	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 shape	det
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 shape	amod
21	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 shape	amod
22	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 glass	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 glass	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 glass	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 glass	cop
27	continually	continually	ADV	_	32 glass	advmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	32 glass	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 glass	nmod:poss
30	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 glass	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 looking	punct
32	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	past	amends = amend		dozen laces		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above lace=Location
2	try	gerund	amends = amend not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	lace up not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	amends = amend not said here			close property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	have	might	amends = amend	a fine slender shape			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient
5	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	is	past	amends = amend		amends's looking glass	continually property	tree rules

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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