--- title: This was a new trouble to Cinderilla; for it was she who ironed her… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: This was a new trouble to Cinderilla; for it was she who ironed her sisters' linen, and plaited their ruffles; they talked all day long of nothing but how they should be dressed. " Who acts: This, trouble, commonly, Misses. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Fol --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/) / 28 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 28 This was a new trouble to Cinderilla; for it was she who ironed her sisters' linen, and plaited their ruffles; they talked all day long of nothing but how they should be dressed. " **Who acts:** This, trouble, commonly, Misses · **What happens:** be, iron, plait, talk, dress · **To what, where:** new trouble, Cinderilla, linen, ruffles, Misses This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, trouble, commonly, Misses), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29021:11:28 # text = This was a new trouble to Cinderilla; for it was she who ironed her sisters' linen, and plaited their ruffles; they talked all day long of nothing but how they should be dressed. " 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Cinderilla Cinderilla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 ironed iron VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ' 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 linen linen NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 plaited plait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 ruffles ruffle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 26 obl _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 33 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 37 advmod _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | This | a new trouble | Cinderilla | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | trouble | | | | | for commonly | tree rules | | 3 | **iron** | past | commonly | commonly's sisters's linen | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=Patient | | 4 | **plait** | past | commonly *not said here* | Misses's ruffles | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruffle=Patient | | 5 | **talk** | past | Misses *= miss* | | | | day | of nothing | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **dress** | should · passive | | Misses *= miss* | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/29/) - ↑ back to [Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/)