--- title: Then they rose up and opened their drawers and boxes, and took out a… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then they rose up and opened their drawers and boxes, and took out all their fine clothes, and dressed themselves at the glass, and skipped about as if they were eager to begin dancing. Who acts: princesses. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:10:19 # text = Then they rose up and opened their drawers and boxes, and took out all their fine clothes, and dressed themselves at the glass, and skipped about as if they were eager to begin dancing. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 drawers drawer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 18 det:predet _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 dressed dress VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 skipped skip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 eager eager ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 advcl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 dancing dancing NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise up** | past | princesses *= princess* | | | | then | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **open** | past | princesses *= princess* *not said here* | princesses's drawers and boxes | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drawer=Theme | | 3 | **take out** | past | princesses *= princess* *not said here* | princesses's fine clothes | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | | 4 | **dress** | past | princesses *= princess* *not said here* | princesses *= princess* | | the glass | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | | 5 | **skip** | past | princesses *= princess* *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | princesses *= princess* | | | | | eager *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **begin** | to-infinitive | princesses *= princess* *not said here* | dancing | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dancing=Eventuality | 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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/10/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/10/20/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Dancing Princesses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/10/)