The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 20

Scarcely had the sun begun to peep over the hills next morning, when the princess stood by the shepherd’s side, ready to go to the lake.

Who acts: Scarcely, sun, princess · What happens: have, begin, peep, stand, go · To what, where: sun, lake

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, sun, 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	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 peep	mark
7	peep	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 begun	xcomp
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 hills	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hills	det
10	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 peep	obl
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 morning	amod
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 peep	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 stood	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 princess	det
16	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	22 side	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shepherd	det
20	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 side	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 shepherd	case
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ready	punct
24	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stood	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 go	mark
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ready	xcomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 lake	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lake	det
29	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely	the sun				tree rules
2	begin	participle	the sun not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	peep	to-infinitive	the sun not said here			morning	over the hills	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over hill=Theme
4	stand	past	the princess				by the shepherd's side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
5	go	to-infinitive	the princess not said here		the lake			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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