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title: When midnight came and everyone in the palace was sound asleep, the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When midnight came and everyone in the palace was sound asleep, the nurse who alone watched by the baby’s cradle in the nursery saw the door open gently, and who should come in but the real Queen. Who acts: midnight, everyone, nurse. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sis
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# The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 97

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When midnight came and everyone in the palace was sound asleep, the nurse who alone watched by the baby’s cradle in the nursery saw the door open gently, and who should come in but the real Queen.

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**Who acts:** midnight, everyone, nurse · **What happens:** come, be, watch, see, come in · **To what, where:** nursery, door

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (midnight, everyone, nurse), 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:pg540:10:97
# text = When midnight came and everyone in the palace was sound asleep, the nurse who alone watched by the baby’s cradle in the nursery saw the door open gently, and who should come in but the real Queen.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	sound	sound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
30	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
36	in	in	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | midnight |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **watch** | participle | the nurse |  |  | the nursery |  | by the baby's cradle; alone *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by cradle=Location |
| 4 | **see** | past | the nurse | the door |  |  |  | gently, open *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus |
| 5 | **come in** | should |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:** «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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