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title: They told her: Yes, but that she hurried away immediately when it st… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They told her: Yes, but that she hurried away immediately when it struck twelve, and with so much haste that she dropped one of her little glass slippers, the prettiest in the world, which the King’s son had taken up; that he had done nothing but look at her all the time at the ball, and that most c
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 82

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They told her: Yes, but that she hurried away immediately when it struck twelve, and with so much haste that she dropped one of her little glass slippers, the prettiest in the world, which the King’s son had taken up; that he had done nothing but look at her all the time at the ball, and that most certainly he was very much in love with the beautiful person who owned the glass slipper.

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**Who acts:** ladies, Cinderella, ball, son, beautiful person · **What happens:** tell, hurry away, strike, drop, take up, do · **To what, where:** Cinderella, twelve, one, world, nothing, love · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Cinderella, ball, son), 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:pg503:11:82
# text = They told her: Yes, but that she hurried away immediately when it struck twelve, and with so much haste that she dropped one of her little glass slippers, the prettiest in the world, which the King’s son had taken up; that he had done nothing but look at her all the time at the ball, and that most certainly he was very much in love with the beautiful person who owned the glass slipper.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	advcl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	obj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’s	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	acl:relcl	_	_
46	up	up	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
52	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	51	obj	_	_
53	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obl	_	_
57	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	59	det:predet	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl:unmarked	_	_
60	at	at	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
65	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	2	ccomp	_	_
66	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	65	fixed	_	_
67	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	73	advmod	_	_
68	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	73	nsubj	_	_
69	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	73	cop	_	_
70	very	very	ADV	RB	_	71	advmod	_	_
71	much	much	ADV	RB	_	73	advmod	_	_
72	in	in	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
73	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	vocative	_	_
74	with	with	ADP	IN	_	77	case	_	_
75	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	77	det	_	_
76	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	77	amod	_	_
77	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	nmod	_	_
78	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	79	nsubj	_	_
79	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	77	acl:relcl	_	_
80	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	82	det	_	_
81	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	82	compound	_	_
82	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
83	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | ladies *= lady* |  | Cinderella |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 2 | **hurry away** | past | Cinderella |  |  |  |  | away, immediately *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **strike** | past | ball | twelve |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient |
| 4 | **drop** | past | Cinderella | one of Cinderella's little glass slippers |  |  |  | with much haste | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 5 | **take up** | past · perfect | the King's son | the world |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | past · perfect | son | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 7 | **look** | present | son *not said here* |  |  |  | time | at Cinderella | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | past | son |  |  | love |  | with the beautiful person; certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **own** | past | the beautiful person | the glass slipper |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot slipper=Theme |

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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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