Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 47
‘Where do my twelve daughters dance at night?’ he answered, ‘With twelve princes in a castle under ground.’
Who acts: twelve daughters, thing · What happens: do, dance, answer
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 (twelve daughters, thing), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 dance | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 do | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dance | advcl |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 5 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 daughters | nummod |
| 6 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dance | nsubj |
| 7 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 night | case |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dance | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 dance | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 dance | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dance | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 princes | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 princes | punct |
| 16 | With | with | ADP | _ | 18 princes | case |
| 17 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 princes | nummod |
| 18 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 answered | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 castle | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 castle | det |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 princes | nmod |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 castle | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dance | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 dance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | my twelve daughters not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dance | present | my twelve daughters | night | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | thing | with twelve princes in a castle under ground | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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