--- title: He invited Cinderilla to sit down, and putting the slipper to her fo… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: He invited Cinderilla to sit down, and putting the slipper to her foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her, as if it had been made of wax. Who acts: gentleman, Cinderilla, foot. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/10/) [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/) / [Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/) / 10 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\], sentence 10 He invited Cinderilla to sit down, and putting the slipper to her foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her, as if it had been made of wax. **Who acts:** gentleman, Cinderilla, foot · **What happens:** invite, sit down, put, find, go, fit · **To what, where:** Cinderilla, slipper, foot · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, Cinderilla, foot), 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:pg29021:12:10 # text = He invited Cinderilla to sit down, and putting the slipper to her foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her, as if it had been made of wax. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 invited invite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Cinderilla Cinderilla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 down down ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 slipper slipper NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 very very ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 easily easily ADV RB _ 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 fitted fit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 parataxis _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **invite** | past | gentleman | Cinderilla | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cinderilla=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **sit down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Cinderilla *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **put** | gerund | Cinderilla *not said here* | the slipper | | | | to Cinderilla's foot | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent slipper=Goal | | 4 | **find** | past | gentleman | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **go** | past | foot | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on easily=Location | | 6 | **fit** | past | | Cinderilla | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 7 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive | | foot | | | | of wax | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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 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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/11/) - ↑ back to [Prince Took Up Most Carefully"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/12/)