The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 68

The eldest Princess opened it, and they found themselves immediately in a lovely little wood, where the leaves were spangled with drops of silver which shone in the brilliant light of the moon.

Who acts: eldest Princess, princesses, silver · What happens: open, find, spangle, shine, light · To what, where: end, princesses, lovely little wood, leaves, brilliant light, moon

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 (eldest Princess, princesses, silver), 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	3 Princess	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 Princess	amod
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 opened	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 found	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	conj
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 found	obj
11	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	9 found	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 wood	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wood	det
14	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wood	amod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wood	amod
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spangled	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 spangled	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 leaves	det
20	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 spangled	nsubj:pass
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 spangled	aux:pass
22	spangled	spangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 wood	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 drops	case
24	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 spangled	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 silver	case
26	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drops	nmod
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 shone	nsubj
28	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 silver	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 light	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 light	det
31	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 light	amod
32	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shone	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 moon	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 moon	det
35	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 light	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	the eldest Princess	end			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	find	past	princesses = princess	princesses = princess	a lovely little wood	immediately property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic
3	spangle	past · passive		the leaves		with drops of silver	tree rules
4	shine	past	silver		the brilliant light of the moon		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location
5	light			the moon			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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