The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 42

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

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.

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 middle	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 middle	det
4	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 night	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 middle	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 came	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 huddled	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 huddled	nsubj:pass
14	huddled	huddle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 came	advcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 huddled	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 mantle	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 mantle	det
18	misty	misty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mantle	amod
19	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mantle	amod
20	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 huddled	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sat	cc
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 sat	compound:prt
25	near	near	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sat	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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.

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