The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 70

At last the Star Gazer perceived a large lake, and on the shores of the lake twelve little boats with awnings, in which were seated twelve princes, who, grasping their oars, awaited the princesses.

Who acts: twelve princes · What happens: perceive, seat, grasp, await · To what, where: large lake, last Star Gazer, twelve princes, twelve little boats, oars, princesses

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 (twelve princes), 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	_	5 Gazer	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Gazer	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Gazer	det
4	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Gazer	compound
5	Gazer	Gazer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 perceived	obl
6	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lake	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lake	amod
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perceived	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 awaited	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 awaited	cc
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 shores	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shores	det
14	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 awaited	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 lake	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lake	det
17	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shores	nmod
18	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 boats	nummod
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boats	amod
20	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shores	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 awnings	case
22	awnings	awning	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 boats	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seated	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 seated	obl
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seated	aux:pass
27	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 boats	acl
28	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 princes	nummod
29	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 seated	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 grasping	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 grasping	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 grasping	punct
33	grasping	grasp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 princes	acl
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 oars	nmod:poss
35	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 grasping	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shores	punct
37	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 perceived	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 princesses	det
39	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 awaited	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	perceive	past		a large lake	the last Star Gazer	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lake=Stimulus
2	seat	past · passive		twelve princes	twelve little boats with awnings	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: prince=Value in which=Location
3	grasp	gerund	twelve princes	princes's oars		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oar=Stimulus
4	await	past		the princesses	the shores of the lake and twelve little boats with awnings	tree rules

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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