The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 23

It was well known for full twenty miles round that there lived in the castle of Beloeil twelve princesses of wonderful beauty, and as proud as they were beautiful, and who were besides so very sensitive and of such truly royal blood, that they would have felt at once the presence of a pea in their beds, even if the mattresses had been laid over it.

Who acts: princesses · What happens: know, live, be, feel, lay · To what, where: bundle, castle, presence, mattresses

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 (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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 known	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 known	aux:pass
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 known	advmod
4	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 miles	case
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 miles	amod
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 miles	nummod
8	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 known	obl
9	round	round	ADP	_	12 lived	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 lived	mark
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 lived	advmod
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 known	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 castle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 castle	det
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 princesses	case
17	Beloeil	Beloeil	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 princesses	compound
18	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 princesses	nummod
19	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 castle	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 beauty	case
21	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 beauty	amod
22	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 princesses	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 proud	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 proud	cc
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 proud	advmod
26	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lived	conj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 beautiful	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 beautiful	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 beautiful	cop
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 proud	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 besides	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 besides	cc
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 besides	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 besides	cop
35	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 known	conj
36	so	so	ADV	_	38 sensitive	advmod
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 sensitive	advmod
38	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 besides	xcomp
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 blood	cc
40	of	of	ADP	_	44 blood	case
41	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 blood	amod
42	truly	truly	ADV	_	43 royal	advmod
43	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 blood	amod
44	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sensitive	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 felt	punct
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 felt	mark
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 felt	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 felt	aux
49	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 felt	aux
50	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 known	parataxis
51	at	at	ADP	_	54 presence	case
52	once	once	SCONJ	_	54 presence	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 presence	det
54	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 felt	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 pea	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 pea	det
57	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 presence	nmod
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 beds	case
59	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 beds	nmod:poss
60	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 felt	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 laid	punct
62	even	even	ADV	_	68 laid	advmod
63	if	if	SCONJ	_	68 laid	mark
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 mattresses	det
65	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 laid	nsubj:pass
66	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 laid	aux
67	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	68 laid	aux:pass
68	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 felt	conj
69	over	over	ADP	_	70 it	case
70	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 laid	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past · passive		bundle		for full twenty miles; well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	live	past			the castle of Beloeil twelve princesses of wonderful beauty; there		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location
3	is	past	princesses = princess			beautiful property	tree rules
4	is	past				beside, sensitive property	tree rules
5	feel	would · perfect	princesses = princess		the presence of a pea	in princesses's beds	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in bed=Attribute
6	lay a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the mattresses	bundle		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over it=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: «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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