The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 57

At the end of an hour, when the Star Gazer heard no more noise, he peeped out and saw the twelve sisters in splendid garments, with their satin shoes on their feet, and in their hands the bouquets he had brought them.

Who acts: Star Gazer, Gazer · What happens: hear, peep out, see, bring · To what, where: more noise, end, twelve sisters, splendid garments, bouquets, hands

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 (Star Gazer, Gazer), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hour	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hour	det
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 heard	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Gazer	det
10	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Gazer	compound
11	Gazer	Gazer	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	no	no	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 noise	amod
15	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 peeped	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 peeped	nsubj
18	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 peeped	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 saw	cc
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 peeped	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sisters	det
23	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 sisters	nummod
24	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 saw	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 garments	case
26	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 garments	amod
27	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sisters	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 shoes	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 shoes	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 shoes	nmod:poss
31	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shoes	compound
32	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 saw	obl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 feet	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 feet	nmod:poss
35	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 shoes	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 brought	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 brought	cc
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 hands	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hands	nmod:poss
40	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 brought	obl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 bouquets	det
42	bouquets	bouquet	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 brought	nsubj:pass
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 brought	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 brought	aux
45	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 heard	conj
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 brought	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the Star Gazer	more noise		at the end of a hour		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
2	peep out	past	Gazer					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	Gazer not said here	the twelve sisters	splendid garments		with sisters's satin shoes on sisters's feet	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus
4	bring	past · perfect · passive		the bouquets	sisters's hands			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination they=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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