The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 89

It was but just that she should try, and that he had orders to let everyone make trial.

Who acts: handsome, Cinderella, gentleman, everyone · What happens: be, try, have, let, make · To what, where: orders, everyone, trial

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 (handsome, Cinderella, gentleman, everyone), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 try	cc
4	just	just	ADV	_	8 try	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 try	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 try	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 try	aux
8	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 let	advcl
14	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 let	mark
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 try	conj
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 let	obj
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	be	past	handsome		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	should	Cinderella		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	have	past	gentleman	orders	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient
4	let	to-infinitive	Cinderella not said here	everyone	tree rules
5	make	infinitive	everyone not said here	trial	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trial=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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