The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 47
Being thus decked out, she got up into her coach; but her godmother, above all things, commanded her not to stay till after midnight, telling her, at the same time, that if she stayed one moment longer, the coach would be a pumpkin again, her horses mice, her coachman a rat, her footmen lizards, and her clothes become just as they were before.
Who acts: Cinderella, godmother, coach, clothes · What happens: deck out, get up, command, not stay, tell, stay · To what, where: coach, Cinderella, pumpkin · Speech: someone speaks here
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, coach, clothes), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 decked | aux:pass |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 decked | advmod |
| 3 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 decked | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 decked | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 coach | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 coach | nmod:poss |
| 11 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 commanded | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 commanded | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 godmother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 commanded | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 things | punct |
| 17 | above | above | ADP | _ | 19 things | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 things | det |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 godmother | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 godmother | punct |
| 21 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | parataxis |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 commanded | obj |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 stay | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 stay | mark |
| 25 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 commanded | xcomp |
| 26 | till | till | ADV | _ | 25 stay | advmod |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 midnight | case |
| 28 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stay | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 telling | punct |
| 30 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 commanded | advcl |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 telling | iobj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 time | punct |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 time | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 time | det |
| 35 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 time | amod |
| 36 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 telling | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 stayed | punct |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 stayed | mark |
| 39 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 stayed | mark |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 stayed | nsubj |
| 41 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 commanded | conj |
| 42 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 moment | nummod |
| 43 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 44 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 41 stayed | advmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 pumpkin | punct |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 coach | det |
| 47 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 pumpkin | nsubj |
| 48 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 pumpkin | aux |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 pumpkin | cop |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 pumpkin | det |
| 51 | pumpkin | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 stayed | parataxis |
| 52 | again | again | ADV | _ | 51 pumpkin | advmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 mice | punct |
| 54 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 horses | nmod:poss |
| 55 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 mice | compound |
| 56 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 pumpkin | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 coachman | punct |
| 58 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 coachman | nmod:poss |
| 59 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 pumpkin | conj |
| 60 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 61 rat | det |
| 61 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 coachman | appos |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 lizards | punct |
| 63 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 65 lizards | nmod:poss |
| 64 | footmen | footmen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 lizards | amod |
| 65 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 61 rat | conj |
| 66 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 70 become | punct |
| 67 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 70 become | cc |
| 68 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 69 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 69 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 70 become | nsubj |
| 70 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 commanded | conj |
| 71 | just | just | ADV | _ | 75 before | advmod |
| 72 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 75 before | mark |
| 73 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 75 before | nsubj |
| 74 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 75 before | cop |
| 75 | before | before | ADV | _ | 70 become | advmod |
| 76 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deck out | gerund · passive | thus property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 2 | get up | past | Cinderella | Cinderella's coach | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into coach=Destination | ||||
| 3 | command | past | Cinderella's godmother and all things | Cinderella | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | Cinderella's godmother and all things not said here | midnight | till property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Cinderella's godmother and all things not said here | Cinderella | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 6 | stay a condition, not said to happen | past | Cinderella | moment | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 7 | is a | would | the coach | a pumpkin and horses mice and Cinderella's coachman | again | tree rules | |||
| 8 | become | present | Cinderella's clothes | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 9 | is | past | clothes | before property | 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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