The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 92
They danced on till the shoes of the princesses were worn into holes.
Who acts: princesses · What happens: dance, wear · To what, where: shoes, holes
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 danced | nsubj |
| 2 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 shoes | case |
| 4 | till | till | ADP | _ | 6 shoes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shoes | det |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 danced | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 princesses | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princesses | det |
| 9 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 worn | obl |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 worn | aux:pass |
| 11 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 shoes | acl:relcl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 holes | case |
| 13 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 worn | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | princesses = princess | the shoes | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoe=Location | ||||
| 2 | wear | past · passive | the shoes not said here | holes | of the princesses | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: of princess=Source |
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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