Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 40

They danced on till three o’clock in the morning, and then all their shoes were worn out, so that they were obliged to leave off.

Who acts: sisters · What happens: dance, wear out, oblige, leave off · To what, where: three o’clock, shoes, sisters

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 (sisters), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 danced	nsubj
2	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 o’clock	case
4	till	till	ADP	_	6 o’clock	case
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 o’clock	nummod
6	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 danced	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 morning	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 morning	det
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 danced	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 worn	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 worn	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 all	advmod
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 shoes	det:predet
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 shoes	nmod:poss
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 worn	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 worn	aux:pass
17	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 danced	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 worn	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 obliged	punct
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 obliged	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 obliged	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 obliged	aux:pass
24	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 worn	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 leave	mark
26	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 obliged	xcomp
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 leave	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	dance	past	sisters = sister		three o’clock	morning	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on o'clock=Location
2	wear out	past · passive		sisters's shoes			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	oblige	past · passive		sisters = sister			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	leave off	to-infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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