--- title: That night, when her father was asleep, she crept softly into his ch… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: That night, when her father was asleep, she crept softly into his chamber and took out an enchanted knife from the chest where he kept his treasures, and hid it carefully in a safe place before she went to bed. Who acts: father, daughter. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/23/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Enchanted Knife](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/23/) / 11 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 11 That night, when her father was asleep, she crept softly into his chamber and took out an enchanted knife from the chest where he kept his treasures, and hid it carefully in a safe place before she went to bed. **Who acts:** father, daughter · **What happens:** be, creep, take out, enchant, keep, hide · **To what, where:** chamber, enchanted knife, chest, treasures, knife, safe place This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, daughter), 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:pg641:23:11 # text = That night, when her father was asleep, she crept softly into his chamber and took out an enchanted knife from the chest where he kept his treasures, and hid it carefully in a safe place before she went to bed. 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 softly softly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 enchanted enchant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 25 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 treasures treasure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 39 before before SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | daughter's father | | | | | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **creep** | past | daughter | | | father's chamber | night | softly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Destination | | 3 | **take out** | past | daughter *not said here* | a enchanted knife | | the chest | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme from chest=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **enchant** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **keep** | past | father | father's treasures | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | | 6 | **hide** | past | daughter *not said here* | knife | | a safe place | | carefully *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in place=Location | | 7 | **go** | past | daughter | | | bed | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **treasure** | | father | | | | | | nom treasure «possession transitive»: 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:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/23/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/23/12/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Knife](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/23/)