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title: They had twelve beds all in the same room, but what was very extraor… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They had twelve beds all in the same room, but what was very extraordinary was the fact that though they were locked in by triple bolts, every morning their satin shoes were found worn into holes. Who acts: princesses, triple bolts, satin shoes. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 25

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They had twelve beds all in the same room, but what was very extraordinary was the fact that though they were locked in by triple bolts, every morning their satin shoes were found worn into holes.

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**Who acts:** princesses, triple bolts, satin shoes · **What happens:** have, be, lock in, find, wear · **To what, where:** twelve beds, same room, princesses, satin shoes, holes

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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, triple bolts, satin shoes), 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:pg540:2:25
# text = They had twelve beds all in the same room, but what was very extraordinary was the fact that though they were locked in by triple bolts, every morning their satin shoes were found worn into holes.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	triple	triple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bolts	bolt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	_
36	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	xcomp	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | princesses *= princess* | twelve beds |  | the same room |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | extraordinary *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lock in** | past · passive | triple bolts and every morning | princesses *= princess* |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **find** | past · passive | triple bolts and every morning *not said here* | princesses's satin shoes |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 5 | **wear** | participle | princesses's satin shoes *not said here* |  |  | holes |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «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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