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title: This was a new trouble to Cinderella; for it was she who ironed her… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This was a new trouble to Cinderella; 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, Cinderella, misses. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Littl
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 13

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This was a new trouble to Cinderella; 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.

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**Who acts:** This, trouble, Cinderella, misses · **What happens:** be, iron, plait, talk, dress · **To what, where:** new trouble, Cinderella, linen, ruffles, misses

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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 (This, trouble, Cinderella, misses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg503:11:13
# text = This was a new trouble to Cinderella; 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	Cinderella	Cinderella	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	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | a new trouble | Cinderella |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | trouble |  |  |  |  | for Cinderella | tree rules |
| 3 | **iron** | past | Cinderella | Cinderella's sisters's linen |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=Patient |
| 4 | **plait** | past | Cinderella *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 |

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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.

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**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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