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title: She had no sooner done so, but her godmother turned them into six fo… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 60

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29021:11:60
# text = 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.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	footmen	footman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	skipped	skip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	liveries	livery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	all	all	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	bedaubed	bedaub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	clung	cling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
39	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
47	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	46	obj	_	_
48	else	else	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
50	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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