Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 150

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 · 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 midnight	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 gone	advmod
5	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 gone	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	parataxis
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 roof	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 roof	nmod:poss
17	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 room	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 room	nmod:poss
23	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 got	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 got	cc
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 bed	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bed	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 bed	cop
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 bed	case
30	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 got	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 son	cc
32	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 son	amod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 asleep	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Raja	det
35	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 son	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 Raja	case
37	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bed	conj
38	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	parataxis
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 got	compound:prt
40	softly	softly	ADV	_	38 got	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sat	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 sat	cc
43	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 got	conj
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 bed	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 bed	nmod:poss
46	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sat	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	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.

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