--- title: About midnight in they came, dancing and skipping, hopped round the… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: About midnight in they came, dancing and skipping, hopped round the room, and then went to sit down to their work as usual; but when they saw the clothes lying for them, they laughed and chuckled, and seemed mightily delighted. Who acts: wights, clothes. 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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 (wights, clothes), 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:pg2591:37:21 # text = About midnight in they came, dancing and skipping, hopped round the room, and then went to sit down to their work as usual; but when they saw the clothes lying for them, they laughed and chuckled, and seemed mightily delighted. 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 in in SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 dancing dance VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 skipping skip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 hopped hop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 12 round round ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 18 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 down down ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 31 obj _ _ 34 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 chuckled chuckle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 45 mightily mightily ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | wights *= wight* | | | | midnight | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **dance** | gerund | wights *= wight* *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **skip** | gerund | wights *= wight* *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hop** | participle | | | | the room | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round room=Trajectory | | 5 | **go** | past | wights *= wight* *not said here* | | | | then | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **sit down** | to-infinitive | wights *= wight* *not said here* | | | | | to wights's work; as usual | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **see** | past | wights *= wight* | the clothes | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clothes=Stimulus | | 8 | **lie** | gerund | the clothes *not said here* | | | | | for wights *= wight* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **laugh** | past | wights *= wight* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **chuckle** | past | wights *= wight* *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **seem** | past | | | | | | delighted *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 12 | **work** | | wights *= wight* | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/37/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/37/22/) - ↑ back to [The Elves and the Shoemaker](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/37/)