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title: Anyone but Cinderella would have dressed their heads awry, but she w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Anyone but Cinderella would have dressed their heads awry, but she was very good, and dressed them perfectly well They were almost two days without eating, so much were they transported with joy. Who acts: Anyone, head, amends. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the L
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 22

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Anyone but Cinderella would have dressed their heads awry, but she was very good, and dressed them perfectly well They were almost two days without eating, so much were they transported with joy.

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**Who acts:** Anyone, head, amends · **What happens:** dress, be, eat, transport · **To what, where:** amends, two days

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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 (Anyone, head, 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:pg503:11:22
# text = Anyone but Cinderella would have dressed their heads awry, but she was very good, and dressed them perfectly well They were almost two days without eating, so much were they transported with joy.
1	Anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	awry	awry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
22	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
27	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	much	much	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	transported	transport	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | would · perfect | Anyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | head |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dress** | past | Anyone *not said here* | amends *= amend* |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | amends *= amend* | two days |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** | gerund | Anyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **transport** | past · passive |  | amends *= amend* |  |  |  | with joy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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