The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 55

All the ladies were busied in considering her clothes and headdress, that they might have some made next day after the same pattern, provided they could meet with such fine material and as able hands to make them.

Who acts: ladies · What happens: busy, consider, have, make, provide, meet · To what, where: ladies, clothes

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 (ladies), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 ladies	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ladies	det
3	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 busied	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 busied	aux:pass
5	busied	busy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 considering	mark
7	considering	consider	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 busied	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 clothes	nmod:poss
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 considering	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 headdress	cc
11	headdress	headdress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 clothes	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 have	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 busied	parataxis
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 day	det
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 day	amod
19	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 day	amod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
21	after	after	ADP	_	24 pattern	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pattern	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pattern	amod
24	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 day	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 provided	punct
26	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 busied	parataxis
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 meet	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 meet	aux
29	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 provided	ccomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 material	case
31	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 material	amod
32	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 material	amod
33	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 meet	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hands	cc
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 hands	case
36	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 hands	amod
37	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 material	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 make	mark
39	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 meet	advcl
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 make	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 busied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	busy	past · passive		all ladies			tree rules
2	consider	gerund		silence's clothes and headdress			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent clothes=Attribute
3	have	might	ladies = lady		day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	make	participle					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	provide	past					vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme
6	meet	could	ladies = lady			with such fine material and able hands	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with material=Co-Agent
7	make	to-infinitive	ladies = lady not said here	ladies = lady			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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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