The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 25

They had twelve beds all in the same room, but what was very extraordinary was the fact that though they were locked in by triple bolts, every morning their satin shoes were found worn into holes.

Who acts: princesses, triple bolts, satin shoes · What happens: have, be, lock in, find, wear · To what, where: twelve beds, same room, princesses, satin shoes, holes

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, triple bolts, satin shoes), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 beds	nummod
4	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	all	all	ADV	_	9 room	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 extraordinary	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 extraordinary	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 extraordinary	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 extraordinary	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 extraordinary	advmod
15	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 extraordinary	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fact	det
18	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 was	nsubj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 locked	mark
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 locked	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 locked	nsubj:pass
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 locked	aux:pass
23	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 fact	acl
24	in	in	ADP	_	23 locked	compound:prt
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 bolts	case
26	triple	triple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bolts	amod
27	bolts	bolt	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 locked	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 morning	punct
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 morning	det
30	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bolts	conj
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 shoes	nmod:poss
32	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shoes	compound
33	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 found	nsubj:pass
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 found	aux:pass
35	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 bolts	acl:relcl
36	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 found	xcomp
37	into	into	ADP	_	38 holes	case
38	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 worn	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	princesses = princess	twelve beds	the same room		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient
2	is	past				extraordinary property	tree rules
3	lock in	past · passive	triple bolts and every morning	princesses = princess			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4	find	past · passive	triple bolts and every morning not said here	princesses's satin shoes			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
5	wear	participle	princesses's satin shoes not said here		holes		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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: «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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