Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 6

There he was to sit and watch where they went to dance; and, in order that nothing might pass without his hearing it, the door of his chamber was left open.

Who acts: son, princesses, nothing · What happens: be, watch, go, dance, pass, leave · To what, where: hearing, order, door

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, nothing), 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	5 sit	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sit	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sit	mark
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 watch	cc
7	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sit	conj
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 went	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 watch	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 dance	mark
12	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 went	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 pass	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pass	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 and	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 order	case
17	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pass	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 pass	mark
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 pass	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 pass	aux
21	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sit	conj
22	without	without	ADP	_	24 hearing	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hearing	nmod:poss
24	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pass	obl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pass	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 door	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 left	nsubj:pass
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 chamber	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 chamber	nmod:poss
31	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 door	nmod
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 left	aux:pass
33	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 pass	parataxis
34	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 left	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	son		there	sit property	tree rules
2	watch	infinitive	son not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	princesses = princess				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	dance	to-infinitive	princesses = princess not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pass	might	nothing	hearing	order	without son's hearing	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in order=Destination
6	leave	past · passive		the door of son's chamber		open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	hear		son				nom hearing «act intransitive»: poss=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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