The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 72

Cinderella, indeed, expected well such answer, and was very glad of the refusal; for she would have been sadly put to it if her sister had lent her what she asked for jestingly.

Who acts: sister, Cinderella · What happens: expect, be, put, lend, ask · To what, where: Cinderella, refusal

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 (sister, Cinderella), 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	Cinderella	cinderella	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 expected	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Cinderella	punct
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 expected	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 indeed	punct
5	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 expected	advmod
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 answer	amod
8	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 expected	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 glad	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 glad	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 glad	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 glad	advmod
13	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 expected	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 refusal	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 refusal	det
16	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glad	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 put	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 put	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 put	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 put	aux:pass
23	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	24 put	advmod
24	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 expected	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	obl
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 lent	mark
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sister	nmod:poss
29	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lent	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 lent	aux
31	lent	lend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 put	advcl
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 what	nmod:poss
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 lent	obl:agent
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 asked	nsubj
35	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 what	acl:relcl
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 jestingly	case
37	jestingly	jestingly	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	35 asked	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 expected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	expect	past		Cinderella		indeed, well property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
2	is	past				of the refusal; glad property	tree rules
3	put	would · perfect · passive		Cinderella	refusal	sadly property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
4	lend a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Cinderella's sister				vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	ask speech: ask	past	Cinderella				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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