---
title: The gentleman who was sent to try the slipper looked earnestly at Ci… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The gentleman who was sent to try the slipper looked earnestly at Cinderella, and, finding her very handsome, said: Who acts: gentleman. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/11/88/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/11/) / 88

# The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 88

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The gentleman who was sent to try the slipper looked earnestly at Cinderella, and, finding her very handsome, said:

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** gentleman · **What happens:** send, try, look, find, say · **To what, where:** gentleman, slipper, handsome · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (gentleman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg503:11:88
# text = The gentleman who was sent to try the slipper looked earnestly at Cinderella, and, finding her very handsome, said:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	ccomp	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | the gentleman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | to-infinitive | the gentleman *not said here* | the slipper |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slipper=Eventuality |
| 3 | **look** | past | the gentleman |  |  |  |  | at Cinderella; earnestly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cinderella=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | gerund |  | Cinderella's handsome |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handsome=Topic |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/11/87/)
- next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/11/89/)
- ↑ back to [Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/11/)