The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 45

Her godmother only just touched her with her wand, and, at the same instant, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all beset with jewels.

Who acts: godmother, same instant · What happens: touch, turn, beset · To what, where: Cinderella, clothes, cloth

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 (godmother, same instant), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 godmother	nmod:poss
2	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touched	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 touched	advmod
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 touched	advmod
5	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touched	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 wand	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wand	nmod:poss
9	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touched	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 instant	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 instant	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 instant	punct
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 instant	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 instant	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 instant	amod
16	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touched	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 turned	punct
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 clothes	nmod:poss
19	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	21 turned	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 turned	aux:pass
21	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 instant	acl:relcl
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 cloth	case
23	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turned	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 gold	case
25	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cloth	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 silver	cc
27	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cloth	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 beset	punct
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 beset	advmod
30	beset	beset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 turned	parataxis
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 jewels	case
32	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 beset	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	touch	past	Cinderella's godmother	Cinderella		with Cinderella's wand	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer with wand=Instrument
2	turn	past · passive	the same instant not said here	Cinderella's clothes	cloth of gold and silver		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into cloth=Trajectory
3	beset	present				with jewels	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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