Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 33

So they went on till they came to a great lake; and at the side of the lake there lay twelve little boats with twelve handsome princes in them, who seemed to be waiting there for the princesses.

Who acts: princes · What happens: go on, come, lie, seem, wait · To what, where: great lake, twelve little boats, side

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 (princes), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 lake	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lake	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lake	amod
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lay	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 side	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 side	det
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 lake	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lake	det
19	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 side	nmod
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 lake	advmod
21	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
22	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 boats	nummod
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 boats	amod
24	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lay	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 princes	case
26	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 princes	nummod
27	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 princes	amod
28	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lay	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lay	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seemed	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 seemed	nsubj
33	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lay	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	36 waiting	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 waiting	aux
36	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 seemed	xcomp
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 waiting	advmod
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 princesses	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 princesses	det
40	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 waiting	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	princes = prince				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	princes = prince		a great lake		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location
3	lie	past	princes = prince not said here	twelve little boats	the side of the lake	with twelve handsome princes; in princes = prince	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boat=Theme
4	seem	past					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	wait	to-infinitive · progressive			there	for the princesses	vn exist-47.1 «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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