The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 54

They took out of them the most magnificent dresses, which they put on before their mirrors, and when they had finished, turned themselves all round to admire their appearances.

Who acts: princesses, magnificent dresses · What happens: take out, put on, finish, turn, admire · To what, where: boxes, mirrors, princesses, appearances

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, magnificent dresses), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	5 them	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dresses	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 magnificent	advmod
8	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dresses	amod
9	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 put	nsubj:outer
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	nsubj
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dresses	acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 put	compound:prt
15	before	before	ADP	_	17 mirrors	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mirrors	nmod:poss
17	mirrors	mirror	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 finished	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 finished	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 finished	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 finished	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 finished	aux
23	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 took	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turned	punct
25	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 turned	obj
27	all	all	ADV	_	28 round	advmod
28	round	round	ADV	_	25 turned	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 admire	mark
30	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 turned	advcl
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 appearances	nmod:poss
32	appearances	appearance	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 admire	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take out	past	princesses = princess	boxes = box			tree rules
2	put on	past	the magnificent dresses		princesses's mirrors		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before mirror=Destination
3	finish	past · perfect	princesses = princess				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	turn	past	princesses = princess not said here	princesses = princess		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
5	admire	to-infinitive	princesses = princess not said here	princesses's appearances			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer appearance=Stimulus

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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