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title: It was but just that she should try, and that he had orders to let e… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was but just that she should try, and that he had orders to let everyone make trial. Who acts: handsome, Cinderella, gentleman, everyone. 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.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 89

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It was but just that she should try, and that he had orders to let everyone make trial.

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**Who acts:** handsome, Cinderella, gentleman, everyone · **What happens:** be, try, have, let, make · **To what, where:** orders, everyone, trial

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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 (handsome, Cinderella, gentleman, everyone), 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:pg503:11:89
# text = It was but just that she should try, and that he had orders to let everyone make trial.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
14	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	obj	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | handsome |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | should | Cinderella |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | past | gentleman | orders |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient |
| 4 | **let** | to-infinitive | Cinderella *not said here* | everyone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | infinitive | everyone *not said here* | trial |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trial=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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