Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 38
There they all landed, and went into the castle, and each prince danced with his princess; and the soldier, who was all the time invisible, danced with them too; and when any of the princesses had a cup of wine set by her, he drank it all up, so that when she put the cup to her mouth it was empty.
Who acts: princesses, prince, soldier, any, heat, woman · What happens: land, go, dance, be, have, set · To what, where: castle, cup, wine, mouth
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 (princesses, prince, soldier, any), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 landed | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 landed | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 landed | advmod |
| 4 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 landed | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 danced | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 danced | cc |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 danced | nsubj |
| 15 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 landed | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 princess | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 princess | nmod:poss |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 danced | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 soldier | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 soldier | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 soldier | det |
| 22 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 landed | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 invisible | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 invisible | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 invisible | cop |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 time | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 invisible | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 soldier | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 danced | punct |
| 31 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 invisible | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 danced | obl |
| 34 | too | too | ADV | _ | 31 danced | advmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 had | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 had | cc |
| 37 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 any | advmod |
| 38 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 had | nsubj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 princesses | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 princesses | det |
| 41 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 any | nmod |
| 42 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 landed | conj |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 cup | det |
| 44 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 had | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 wine | case |
| 46 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 cup | nmod |
| 47 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 wine | acl |
| 48 | by | by | ADP | _ | 49 her | case |
| 49 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 set | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 drank | punct |
| 51 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 drank | nsubj |
| 52 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 landed | conj |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 drank | obj |
| 54 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 53 it | det |
| 55 | up | up | ADP | _ | 52 drank | compound:prt |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 put | punct |
| 57 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 61 put | mark |
| 58 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 57 so | fixed |
| 59 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 61 put | advmod |
| 60 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 put | nsubj |
| 61 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 landed | conj |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 cup | det |
| 63 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 put | obj |
| 64 | to | to | ADP | _ | 66 mouth | case |
| 65 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 66 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 66 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 put | obl |
| 67 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 69 empty | nsubj |
| 68 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 69 empty | cop |
| 69 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 66 mouth | acl:relcl |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | princesses = princess | there | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | princesses = princess not said here | the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | dance | past | each prince | with heat's princess | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the soldier | time | invisible property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | dance | participle | the soldier not said here | with princesses = princess | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | past | any | a cup of wine | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient | ||||
| 7 | set | participle | wine not said here | by woman | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by she=Destination | ||||
| 8 | drink up | past | heat | cup | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 9 | put | past | woman | the cup | to woman's mouth | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cup=Goal | |||
| 10 | is | past | castle | woman's mouth not said here | empty 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: «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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