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title: They slept in twelve beds all in one room; and when they went to bed… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They slept in twelve beds all in one room; and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up; but every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through as if they had been danced in all night; and yet nobody could find out how it happened, or where they had been. Who acts: daughte
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 2

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They slept in twelve beds all in one room; and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up; but every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through as if they had been danced in all night; and yet nobody could find out how it happened, or where they had been.

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**Who acts:** daughters, doors, nobody, it · **What happens:** sleep, go, be, lock up, find, wear · **To what, where:** twelve beds, bed, morning, daughters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 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 (daughters, doors, nobody, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2591:10:2
# text = They slept in twelve beds all in one room; and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up; but every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through as if they had been danced in all night; and yet nobody could find out how it happened, or where they had been.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
35	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	_
37	through	through	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
39	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	danced	dance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	advcl	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	det	_	_
46	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
50	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	52	nsubj	_	_
51	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
53	out	out	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	_
54	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	56	advmod	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	56	advmod	_	_
60	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
61	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	aux	_	_
62	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	59	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | daughters *= daughter* |  |  | twelve beds |  | in one room | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | daughters *= daughter* |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | the doors |  |  |  |  | shut *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lock up** | participle | the doors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **find** | past · passive |  | every morning |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 6 | **wear** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative» |
| 7 | **dance** | past · perfect · passive |  | daughters *= daughter* |  |  | night |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 8 | **find out** | could | nobody |  |  |  | yet |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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.

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