The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 12

Early the next morning he set to work.

Who acts: maiden · What happens: set, work

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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	Early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 morning	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 set	nsubj
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 work	mark
8	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 set	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	maiden				morning		tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	maiden not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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