--- title: Being thus decked out, she got up into her coach; but her godmother,… — The Blue Fairy Book · 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 one moment longer, the coach would be a pumpkin again, her horses mice, her coachman a rat, her footmen lizards, and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/11/47/) [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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/11/) / 47 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:11:47 # 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 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. 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 7 parataxis _ _ 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 21 xcomp _ _ 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 21 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 21 conj _ _ 42 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl:unmarked _ _ 44 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 48 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 49 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 51 cop _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 pumpkin pumpkin NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 parataxis _ _ 52 again again ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 54 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 compound _ _ 56 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 58 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 59 nmod:poss _ _ 59 coachman coachman NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 conj _ _ 60 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 63 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 65 nmod:poss _ _ 64 footmen footmen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 65 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 67 and and CCONJ CC _ 70 cc _ _ 68 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 69 nmod:poss _ _ 69 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 70 nsubj _ _ 70 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 71 just just ADV RB _ 75 advmod _ _ 72 as as SCONJ IN _ 75 mark _ _ 73 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 75 nsubj _ _ 74 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 75 cop _ _ 75 before before ADV RB _ 70 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 76 . . 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 | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/11/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/11/48/) - ↑ back to [Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/11/)