The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 60

She had no sooner done so, but her godmother turned them into six footmen, who skipped up immediately behind the coach, with their liveries all bedaubed with gold and silver, and clung as close behind it, as if they had done nothing else their whole lives.

Who acts: godmother, six footmen, lizards · What happens: have, do, turn, skip up, bedaub, cling · To what, where: lizards, six footmen, coach, liveries, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godmother, six footmen, lizards), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 sooner	det
4	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 done	advmod
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	xcomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	5 done	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 turned	cc
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 godmother	nmod:poss
10	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	nsubj
11	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 turned	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 footmen	case
14	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 footmen	nummod
15	footmen	footman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 turned	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 skipped	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 skipped	nsubj
18	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 footmen	acl:relcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 skipped	compound:prt
20	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	18 skipped	advmod
21	behind	behind	ADP	_	23 coach	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 coach	det
23	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 skipped	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 liveries	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 liveries	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 liveries	nmod:poss
27	liveries	livery	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 coach	conj
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 bedaubed	advmod
29	bedaubed	bedaub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 liveries	acl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 gold	case
31	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bedaubed	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 silver	cc
33	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gold	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 clung	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 clung	cc
36	clung	cling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 turned	conj
37	as	as	ADP	_	38 close	case
38	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 clung	advmod
39	behind	behind	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 close	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 done	punct
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 done	mark
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 done	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 done	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 done	aux
46	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 clung	advcl
47	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	46 done	obj
48	else	else	ADV	_	47 nothing	advmod
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 lives	nmod:poss
50	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 lives	amod
51	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 done	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	godmother				tree rules
2	do	participle	godmother not said here			soon property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn	past	godmother's godmother	lizards = lizard	six footmen		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into footman=Trajectory
4	skip up	past	six footmen		the coach and lizards's liveries	immediately property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind coach=Trajectory
5	bedaub	participle		lizards's liveries not said here		with gold and silver; all property	tree rules
6	cling	participle	godmother's godmother not said here			close property	vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
7	do	past · perfect	lizards = lizard	nothing			tree rules

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.

Text: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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