The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 53
The princesses began at once to open their wardrobes and boxes.
Who acts: princesses · What happens: begin, open · To what, where: wardrobes
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princesses | det |
| 2 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 began | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 open | mark |
| 7 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wardrobes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wardrobes | wardrobe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 open | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 boxes | cc |
| 11 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wardrobes | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the princesses | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | the princesses not said here | princesses's wardrobes and boxes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wardrobe=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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