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title: They sent for the best tire-woman they could get to make up their he… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They sent for the best tire-woman they could get to make up their head-dresses and adjust their double pinners, and they had their red brushes and patches from Mademoiselle de la Poche. Who acts: amends. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, wit
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 16

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They sent for the best tire-woman they could get to make up their head-dresses and adjust their double pinners, and they had their red brushes and patches from Mademoiselle de la Poche.

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**Who acts:** amends · **What happens:** send, get, make up, adjust, have · **To what, where:** best tire woman, head dresses, double pinners, red brushes, Mademoiselle

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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 (amends), 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:pg503:11:16
# text = They sent for the best tire-woman they could get to make up their head-dresses and adjust their double pinners, and they had their red brushes and patches from Mademoiselle de la Poche.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
6	tire	tire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	adjust	adjust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	pinners	pinner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Mademoiselle	Mademoiselle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
35	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	flat:foreign	_	_
36	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	conj	_	_
37	Poche	Poche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | amends *= amend* |  |  |  |  | for the best tire woman | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | could | amends *= amend* | the best tire woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make up** | to-infinitive | amends *= amend* *not said here* | amends's head dresses |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dress=Pivot |
| 4 | **adjust** | infinitive | amends *= amend* *not said here* | amends's double pinners |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinner=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | past | amends *= amend* | amends's red brushes and patches |  | Mademoiselle |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=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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