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title: All the ladies were busied in considering her clothes and headdress,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All the ladies were busied in considering her clothes and headdress, that they might have some made next day after the same pattern, provided they could meet with such fine material and as able hands to make them. Who acts: ladies. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or t
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 55

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All the ladies were busied in considering her clothes and headdress, that they might have some made next day after the same pattern, provided they could meet with such fine material and as able hands to make them.

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**Who acts:** ladies · **What happens:** busy, consider, have, make, provide, meet · **To what, where:** ladies, clothes

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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 (ladies), 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:pg503:11:55
# text = All the ladies were busied in considering her clothes and headdress, that they might have some made next day after the same pattern, provided they could meet with such fine material and as able hands to make them.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	busied	busy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	headdress	headdress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
19	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **busy** | past · passive |  | all ladies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **consider** | gerund |  | silence's clothes and headdress |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent clothes=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | might | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **provide** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme |
| 6 | **meet** | could | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  |  | with such fine material and able hands | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with material=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **make** | to-infinitive | ladies *= lady* *not said here* | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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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