--- title: At midnight, when everybody had gone to bed, the princess came down… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At midnight, when everybody had gone to bed, the princess came down from her roof, and went to her room; and when she was in bed and asleep, the Raja's son got up softly, and sat on his bed. " Who acts: everybody, princess, bed. 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" **Who acts:** everybody, princess, bed · **What happens:** go, come down, be, get up, sit · **To what, where:** bed, roof, room This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everybody, princess, bed), 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:pg7128:7:150 # text = At midnight, when everybody had gone to bed, the princess came down from her roof, and went to her room; and when she was in bed and asleep, the Raja's son got up softly, and sat on his bed. " 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 nsubj _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 14 down down ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 26 when when SCONJ WRB _ 30 mark _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 32 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Raja Raja PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 38 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 softly softly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · perfect | everybody | | | bed | midnight | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **come down** | past | the princess | | | princess's roof | | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from roof=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **go** | past | the princess *not said here* | | | princess's room | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **is** | past | princess | | | bed and the Raja's asleep son | | | tree rules | | 5 | **get up** | past | bed and the Raja's asleep son | | | | | softly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **sit** | past | bed and the Raja's asleep son *not said here* | | | son's bed | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location | 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 149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/149/) - next →: [sentence 151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/151/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/)