Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 23

When they were all ready, they went and looked at the soldier; but he snored on, and did not stir hand or foot: so they thought they were quite safe; and the eldest went up to her own bed and clapped her hands, and the bed sank into the floor and a trap-door flew open.

Who acts: others, son, eldest, bed, trap door · What happens: be, go, look, snore, not stir, think · To what, where: hand, hands, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, son, eldest, bed), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 ready	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ready	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 ready	advmod
5	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 looked	cc
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 soldier	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 soldier	det
13	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looked	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 snored	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 snored	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 snored	nsubj
17	snored	snore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	conj
18	on	on	ADV	_	17 snored	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stir	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stir	cc
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stir	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 stir	advmod
23	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 snored	conj
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stir	obj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 foot	cc
26	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hand	conj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 thought	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 thought	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 thought	nsubj
30	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stir	advcl
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 safe	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 safe	cop
33	quite	quite	ADV	_	34 safe	advmod
34	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 thought	ccomp
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 went	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 went	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 eldest	det
38	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 went	nsubj
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	conj
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 went	compound:prt
41	to	to	ADP	_	44 bed	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 bed	nmod:poss
43	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 bed	amod
44	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 went	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 clapped	cc
46	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 went	conj
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 hands	nmod:poss
48	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 clapped	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 sank	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 sank	cc
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 bed	det
52	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sank	nsubj
53	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 went	parataxis
54	into	into	ADP	_	56 floor	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 floor	det
56	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sank	obl
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 flew	cc
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 door	det
59	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 door	compound
60	-	-	PUNCT	_	59 trap	punct
61	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 flew	nsubj
62	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 sank	conj
63	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 flew	xcomp
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	others = other			all, ready property	tree rules
2	go	past	others = other				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	past	others = other not said here			at the soldier	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at soldier=Theme
4	snore	past	son				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not stir	past · do-support	son not said here	hand or foot			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hand=Experiencer
6	think speech: other	past	others = other				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	others = other			safe property	tree rules
8	go up	past	the eldest			to simpleton's own bed	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
9	clap	past	the eldest not said here	simpleton's hands			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
10	sink	past	the bed		the floor		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
11	fly	past	a trap door			open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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