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title: At midnight she heard to her great horror some one coming along the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At midnight she heard to her great horror some one coming along the passage, and in a minute her door was flung wide open and a troop of strange beings entered the room. Who acts: Princess, troop. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, with its depende
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 10

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At midnight she heard to her great horror some one coming along the passage, and in a minute her door was flung wide open and a troop of strange beings entered the room.

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**Who acts:** Princess, troop · **What happens:** hear, come, fling, enter · **To what, where:** one, passage, door, room

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, troop), 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:pg640:18:10
# text = At midnight she heard to her great horror some one coming along the passage, and in a minute her door was flung wide open and a troop of strange beings entered the room.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
11	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	along	along	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	flung	fling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
24	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Princess | some one |  |  | midnight | to Princess's great horror | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | Princess *not said here* |  |  | the passage |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along passage=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **fling** | past · passive |  | Princess's door |  |  | minute | open *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **enter** | past | a troop of strange beings | the room |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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