The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 4

No sooner were the ceremonies of the wedding over but the mother-in-law began to show herself in her true colors.

Who acts: ceremonies · What happens: be, begin, show · To what, where: ceremonies, mother

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 (ceremonies), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 ceremonies	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 ceremonies	advmod
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ceremonies	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ceremonies	det
5	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 began	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wedding	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wedding	det
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ceremonies	nmod
9	over	over	ADV	_	17 began	advmod
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 began	nsubj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 law	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 law	case
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 in	punct
16	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mother	nmod
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 show	mark
19	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 show	iobj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 colors	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 colors	nmod:poss
23	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 colors	amod
24	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 show	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		no ceremonies		of the wedding; soon property	tree rules
2	begin	past	no ceremonies			over property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	show	to-infinitive	no ceremonies not said here		mother	in mother's true colors	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in color=Topic

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 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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