The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 24
It was whispered about that they led exactly the lives that princesses ought to lead, sleeping far into the morning, and never getting up till mid-day.
Who acts: mattresses, princesses · What happens: whisper, lead, sleep, not get up · To what, where: bundle, lives
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 (mattresses, 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 | 3 whispered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 whispered | aux:pass |
| 3 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 whispered | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 led | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 led | nsubj |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 whispered | advcl |
| 8 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 10 lives | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lives | det |
| 10 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 led | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lead | obj |
| 12 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lead | nsubj |
| 13 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 lead | aux |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 lead | mark |
| 15 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lives | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sleeping | punct |
| 17 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 led | advcl |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 sleeping | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 morning | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 morning | det |
| 21 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sleeping | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 getting | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 getting | cc |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 getting | advmod |
| 25 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 whispered | parataxis |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 getting | compound:prt |
| 27 | till | till | ADP | _ | 28 mid-day | case |
| 28 | mid-day | mid-day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 getting | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past · passive | bundle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lead | past | mattresses = mattress | the lives | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | ought | princesses | the lives | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sleep | gerund | mattresses = mattress not said here | morning | far property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | not get up | gerund | till mid-day | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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