--- title: In the middle of the night following the assembly of fairies, Queen… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In the middle of the night following the assembly of fairies, Queen Balanice woke up with a shriek, and when her maids of honour ran to see what was the matter, they found she had had a frightful dream. Who acts: night, Queen, maids, matter. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The E --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/108/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Enchanted Watch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/) / 108 # The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 108 In the middle of the night following the assembly of fairies, Queen Balanice woke up with a shriek, and when her maids of honour ran to see what was the matter, they found she had had a frightful dream. **Who acts:** night, Queen, maids, matter · **What happens:** follow, wake up, run, see, find, have · **To what, where:** assembly, middle, frightful dream · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, Queen, maids, matter), 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:pg7277:8:108 # text = In the middle of the night following the assembly of fairies, Queen Balanice woke up with a shriek, and when her maids of honour ran to see what was the matter, they found she had had a frightful dream. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 assembly assembly NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 Balanice Balanice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ _ 15 woke wake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 shriek shriek NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 maids maid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 29 obj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 ccomp _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 frightful frightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | the night *not said here* | the assembly of fairies | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assembly=Theme | | 2 | **wake up** | past | Queen | | | the middle of the night | | with a shriek | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with shriek=Instrument | | 3 | **run** | past | Queen's maids of honour | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | Queen's maids of honour *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 5 | **find** | past | maids *= maid* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **have** | past · perfect | matter | a frightful dream | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/109/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Watch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/)