The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 41

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 each other as if they had done nothing else their whole lives.

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

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 (Cinderella, 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	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 turned	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 godmother	nmod:poss
9	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	nsubj
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 done	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 footmen	case
13	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 footmen	nummod
14	footmen	footman	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turned	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 skipped	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 skipped	nsubj
17	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 footmen	acl:relcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 skipped	compound:prt
19	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	17 skipped	advmod
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	22 coach	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 coach	det
22	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 skipped	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 liveries	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 liveries	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 liveries	nmod:poss
26	liveries	livery	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 coach	conj
27	all	all	ADV	_	28 bedaubed	advmod
28	bedaubed	bedaub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 liveries	acl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 gold	case
30	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bedaubed	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 silver	cc
32	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gold	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 clung	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 clung	cc
35	clung	cling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 close	case
37	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 clung	obl
38	behind	behind	ADP	_	39 each	case
39	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	35 clung	obl
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 each	fixed
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 done	mark
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 done	mark
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 done	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 done	aux
45	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 clung	advcl
46	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	45 done	obj
47	else	else	ADV	_	46 nothing	advmod
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 lives	nmod:poss
49	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 lives	amod
50	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 done	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Cinderella				tree rules
2	do	participle	Cinderella not said here			soon property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn	past	Cinderella'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	Cinderella not said here		each		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind each=Location
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 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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