Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 7
But the king’s son soon fell asleep; and when he awoke in the morning he found that the princesses had all been dancing, for the soles of their shoes were full of holes.
Who acts: son, princesses, soles · What happens: fall, awake, find, have, be · To what, where: dancing · 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 (son, princesses, soles), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 fell | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 fell | advmod |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fell | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 found | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 awoke | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 awoke | nsubj |
| 13 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 morning | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 morning | det |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 awoke | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fell | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 had | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princesses | det |
| 21 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | ccomp |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 dancing | det |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 dancing | cop |
| 25 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 soles | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 soles | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 soles | det |
| 29 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 full | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 shoes | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 32 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 soles | nmod |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 full | cop |
| 34 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 had | ccomp |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 holes | case |
| 36 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 full | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the king's son | asleep, soon property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | awake | past | son | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | son | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | past | the princesses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | participle | all dancing | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | past | the soles of princesses's shoes | of holes; full property | tree rules |
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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