Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 45

As soon as the time came when he was to declare the secret, he was taken before the king with the three branches and the golden cup; and the twelve princesses stood listening behind the door to hear what he would say.

Who acts: thing, twelve princesses · What happens: come, be, take, stand, listen, hear · To what, where: thing · 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 (thing, twelve princesses), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 came	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 declare	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 declare	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 declare	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 declare	mark
11	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 secret	det
13	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 declare	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taken	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 taken	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 taken	aux:pass
17	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 came	conj
18	before	before	ADP	_	20 king	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taken	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 branches	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 branches	det
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 branches	nummod
24	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 taken	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cup	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cup	det
27	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 cup	amod
28	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 branches	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 stood	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 stood	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 princesses	det
32	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 princesses	nummod
33	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 stood	nsubj
34	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
35	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 stood	xcomp
36	behind	behind	ADP	_	38 door	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 door	det
38	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 listening	obl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 hear	mark
40	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 listening	advcl
41	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	44 say	obj
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 say	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 say	aux
44	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 hear	ccomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past			time	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	thing			declare property	tree rules
3	take	past · passive		thing	before the king	with the three branches and the golden cup	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before king=Destination
4	stand	past	the twelve princesses				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	listen	gerund	the twelve princesses not said here			behind the door	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind door=Theme
6	hear	to-infinitive	the twelve princesses not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	say speech: assert	would	thing				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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