The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 97

When midnight came and everyone in the palace was sound asleep, the nurse who alone watched by the baby’s cradle in the nursery saw the door open gently, and who should come in but the real Queen.

Who acts: midnight, everyone, nurse · What happens: come, be, watch, see, come in · To what, where: nursery, door

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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, everyone, nurse), 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	26 saw	advcl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asleep	cc
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 asleep	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 everyone	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asleep	cop
10	sound	sound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 asleep	amod
11	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 nurse	det
14	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saw	nsubj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 watched	nsubj
16	alone	alone	ADV	_	17 watched	advmod
17	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 nurse	acl:relcl
18	by	by	ADP	_	22 cradle	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 baby	det
20	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cradle	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 baby	case
22	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 watched	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 nursery	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 nursery	det
25	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 watched	obl
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 come	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saw	obj
29	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 saw	xcomp
30	gently	gently	ADV	_	26 saw	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 come	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 come	cc
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 come	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 come	aux
35	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
36	in	in	ADV	_	35 come	advmod
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 Queen	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Queen	det
39	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 Queen	amod
40	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 come	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	midnight				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	everyone			asleep property	tree rules
3	watch	participle	the nurse		the nursery	by the baby's cradle; alone property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by cradle=Location
4	see	past	the nurse	the door		gently, open property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus
5	come in	should					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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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