The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 29

They watched all night behind the open door of the princesses, but when the morning came they had all disappeared, and no one could tell what had become of them.

Who acts: princesses, morning, one · What happens: watch, come, have, tell, become · To what, where: open door · Speech: someone speaks here

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, morning, one), 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 watched	nsubj
2	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watched	obl:unmarked
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 door	amod
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watched	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 princesses	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princesses	det
11	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 door	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 came	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 morning	det
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	advcl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 watched	conj
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 disappeared	advmod
21	disappeared	disappeared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 had	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tell	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tell	cc
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tell	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	aux
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 watched	conj
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 become	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 become	aux
30	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 tell	ccomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 become	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	princesses = princess	the open door of the princesses	night		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind door=Location
2	come	past	the morning				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	princesses = princess			disappeared property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	could	no one				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	become	past · perfect				of princesses = princess	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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