The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 13

His scythe danced through the grass much more easily than he had hoped, and soon he had enough to fill the manger.

Who acts: scythe, maiden · What happens: dance, hope, have, fill · To what, where: grass, manger

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 (scythe, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 scythe	nmod:poss
2	scythe	scythe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 danced	nsubj
3	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 danced	obl
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 easily	advmod
9	easily	easily	ADV	_	13 hoped	advmod
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 hoped	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hoped	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hoped	aux
13	hoped	hope	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 danced	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 had	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 danced	conj
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 had	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 fill	mark
21	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 had	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 manger	det
23	manger	manger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fill	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dance	past	maiden's scythe		the grass		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through grass=Location
2	hope	past · perfect	maiden			easily property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	have	past	maiden			enough, soon property	tree rules
4	fill	to-infinitive	maiden not said here	the manger			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent manger=Patient

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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