--- title: Being thus decked out, she got up into her coach; but her godmother,… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: 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 at the ball one moment longer, her coach would be a pumpkin again, her horses mice, her coachman a rat, her footmen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/70/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/) / 70 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 70 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 at the ball one moment longer, her 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:** tale, godmother, coach, clothes · **What happens:** deck out, get up, command, not stay, tell, stay · **To what, where:** coach, tale, ball, pumpkin · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (tale, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29021:11:70 # text = 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 at the ball one moment longer, her 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. 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 aux:pass _ _ 2 thus thus ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 decked deck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 up up ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 godmother godmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 above above ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 21 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 26 till till ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 after after ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 if if SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 42 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ _ 46 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl:unmarked _ _ 47 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 49 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 51 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 52 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 54 cop _ _ 53 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 pumpkin pumpkin NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 parataxis _ _ 55 again again ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 57 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 58 nmod:poss _ _ 58 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 compound _ _ 59 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 61 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 62 nmod:poss _ _ 62 coachman coachman NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 conj _ _ 63 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 66 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 68 nmod:poss _ _ 67 footmen footmen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 amod _ _ 68 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 64 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 69 , , PUNCT , _ 73 punct _ _ 70 and and CCONJ CC _ 73 cc _ _ 71 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 72 nmod:poss _ _ 72 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 73 nsubj _ _ 73 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 68 parataxis _ _ 74 just just ADV RB _ 78 advmod _ _ 75 as as SCONJ IN _ 78 mark _ _ 76 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 78 nsubj _ _ 77 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 78 cop _ _ 78 before before ADV RB _ 73 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 79 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | tale | | | tale's coach | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into coach=Destination | | 3 | **command** | past | tale's godmother and all things | tale | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 4 | **not** **stay** | to-infinitive | | | | | midnight | till *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | tale | | 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 | tale | | | the ball | moment | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ball=Location | | 7 | **is a** | would | tale's coach | a pumpkin and tale's coachman | | | again | horses mice *obl* | tree rules | | 8 | **become** | present | tale'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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/71/) - ↑ back to [Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/11/)