Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 58

When midnight came, and every one was asleep, the nurse, who sat by herself, wide awake, near the cradle, in the nursery, saw the door open and the true Queen come in.

Who acts: midnight, one, nurse, true Queen · What happens: come, be, sit, see, come in · To what, where: nurse, door

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (midnight, one, nurse, true Queen), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 saw	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asleep	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asleep	cc
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asleep	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	cop
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nurse	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nurse	det
12	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sat	nsubj
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 nurse	acl:relcl
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 herself	case
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 awake	punct
19	wide	wide	ADV	_	20 awake	advmod
20	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sat	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cradle	punct
22	near	near	ADP	_	24 cradle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cradle	det
24	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 awake	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 nursery	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 nursery	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 nursery	det
28	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cradle	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saw	punct
30	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 door	det
32	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saw	obj
33	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 saw	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 come	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Queen	det
36	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Queen	amod
37	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 come	nsubj
38	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 saw	conj
39	in	in	ADV	_	38 come	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	midnight	the nurse		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	every one		asleep property	tree rules
3	sit	past	the nurse		by Queen	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by herself=Location
4	see	past		the door	open property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus
5	come in	present	the true Queen			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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