Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 5
He was well entertained, and in the evening was taken to the chamber next to the one where the princesses lay in their twelve beds.
Who acts: son, princesses · What happens: be, take, lay · To what, where: twelve beds
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 (son, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 entertained | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entertained | cop |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 entertained | advmod |
| 4 | entertained | entertained | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taken | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 taken | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 evening | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 evening | det |
| 9 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux:pass |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 entertained | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 chamber | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chamber | det |
| 14 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obl |
| 15 | next | next | ADV | _ | 18 one | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | parataxis |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 lay | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princesses | det |
| 21 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lay | nsubj |
| 22 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 beds | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 beds | nmod:poss |
| 25 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 beds | nummod |
| 26 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lay | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entertained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | son | entertained, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | evening | to the chamber result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: to chamber=Result | ||||
| 3 | lay | present | the princesses | princesses's twelve beds | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bed=Destination |
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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