--- title: At midnight, when the ogress was sound asleep, one of the rats went… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At midnight, when the ogress was sound asleep, one of the rats went to her bedside, climbed up on her face, and inserted its tail into her throat; whereupon the ogress coughed violently, and the ring came out and rolled on to the floor. Who acts: ogress, rats, ring. 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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 (ogress, rats, ring), 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:pg7128:17:3 # text = At midnight, when the ogress was sound asleep, one of the rats went to her bedside, climbed up on her face, and inserted its tail into her throat; whereupon the ogress coughed violently, and the ring came out and rolled on to the floor. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ogress ogress NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 sound sound ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 bedside bedside NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 inserted insert VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 whereupon whereupon ADV WRB PronType=Int 37 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 ogress ogress NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 coughed cough VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 38 violently violently ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 44 out out ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 rolled roll VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 conj _ _ 47 on on ADP RP _ 46 compound:prt _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the ogress | | | | midnight | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | past | the rats | one | | her bedside | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bedside=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **climb up** | past | | | | her face | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on face=Trajectory | | 4 | **insert** | past | | ogress's tail | | her throat | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | | 5 | **cough** | past | the ogress | | | | | violently, whereupon *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **come out** | past | the ring | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **roll on** | participle | the ring *not said here* | | | the floor | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to floor=Destination | 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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/4/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/)