The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 52

That evening, when the princesses went upstairs to bed, he followed them barefoot, so that he might make no noise, and hid himself under one of the twelve beds, so as not to take up much room.

Who acts: princesses, Michael · What happens: go, follow, make, hide, not take up · To what, where: bed, princesses, noise, Michael, much room

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, Michael), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 went	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princesses	det
6	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 followed	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 followed	nsubj
13	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 followed	obj
15	barefoot	barefoot	ADV	_	13 followed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
17	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 make	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	fixed
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 make	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 make	aux
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 followed	parataxis
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 noise	det
23	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hid	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hid	cc
26	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 hid	obj
28	under	under	ADP	_	29 one	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 hid	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 beds	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 beds	det
32	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 beds	nummod
33	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 one	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 take	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	39 take	advmod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 take	mark
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 take	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 take	mark
39	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 went	parataxis
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 take	compound:prt
41	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 room	amod
42	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 take	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the princesses		bed	evening	upstairs property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	follow	past	Michael	princesses = princess			barefoot property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	make	might	Michael	no noise				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product
4	hide	past	the princesses not said here	Michael			under one of the twelve beds	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient under one=Location
5	not take up	to-infinitive		much room				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme

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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