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title: Cinderella, indeed, expected well such answer, and was very glad of… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Cinderella, indeed, expected well such answer, and was very glad of the refusal; for she would have been sadly put to it if her sister had lent her what she asked for jestingly. Who acts: sister, Cinderella. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper,
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 72

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Cinderella, indeed, expected well such answer, and was very glad of the refusal; for she would have been sadly put to it if her sister had lent her what she asked for jestingly.

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**Who acts:** sister, Cinderella · **What happens:** expect, be, put, lend, ask · **To what, where:** Cinderella, refusal

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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 (sister, Cinderella), 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:pg503:11:72
# text = Cinderella, indeed, expected well such answer, and was very glad of the refusal; for she would have been sadly put to it if her sister had lent her what she asked for jestingly.
1	Cinderella	cinderella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	refusal	refusal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	lent	lend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	obl:agent	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	jestingly	jestingly	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	35	obl	_	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 | **expect** | past |  | Cinderella |  |  |  | indeed, well *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of the refusal; glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | would · perfect · passive |  | Cinderella | refusal |  |  | sadly *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 4 | **lend** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Cinderella's sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Cinderella |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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