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title: But in the middle of the night the Princess came herself, all huddle… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But in the middle of the night the Princess came herself, all huddled up in a misty grey mantle, and sat down near him. Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 42

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But in the middle of the night the Princess came herself, all huddled up in a misty grey mantle, and sat down near him.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** come, huddle up, sit down · **To what, where:** Princess, middle, all, misty grey mantle

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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:pg7277:47:42
# text = But in the middle of the night the Princess came herself, all huddled up in a misty grey mantle, and sat down near him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	huddled	huddle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	near	near	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Princess | Princess |  | the middle of the night |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Theme |
| 2 | **huddle up** | participle · passive |  | all |  | a misty grey mantle |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **sit down** | past | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near son | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near he=Location |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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