The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 179

When the satin slippers were worn through the fiddles stopped, and the negro boys set the table.

Who acts: fiddles, negro boys · What happens: wear, stop, set · To what, where: satin slippers, table

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (fiddles, negro boys), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 worn	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 slippers	det
3	satin	satin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slippers	amod
4	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 worn	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 worn	aux:pass
6	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	through	through	SCONJ	_	10 stopped	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fiddles	det
9	fiddles	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stopped	nsubj
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 worn	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 set	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boys	det
14	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 boys	compound
15	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 set	nsubj
16	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 worn	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 table	det
18	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 worn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wear	past · passive		the satin slippers	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	stop	past	the fiddles		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	set	past	the negro boys	the table	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient table=Result

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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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