The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 21

The youth next began to clean out the stall, and the horse knew it had found a master; and by mid-day there was still fodder in the manger, and the place was as clean as a new pin.

Who acts: youth, horse, place · What happens: begin, clean out, know, find, be · To what, where: stall, youth, fodder, manger · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (youth, horse, place), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
3	next	next	ADV	_	4 began	advmod
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 clean	mark
6	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 clean	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stall	det
9	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clean	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 knew	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horse	det
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knew	nsubj
14	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 found	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	aux
17	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 knew	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 master	det
19	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 fodder	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 was	cc
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 mid-day	case
23	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	obl
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fodder	cop
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 fodder	advmod
27	fodder	fodder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 manger	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 manger	det
30	manger	manger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fodder	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 clean	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 clean	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 place	det
34	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 clean	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 clean	cop
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 clean	advmod
37	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 began	parataxis
38	as	as	ADP	_	41 pin	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 pin	det
40	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 pin	amod
41	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 clean	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the youth				next property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	clean out	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	the stall				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stall=Patient
3	know	past	the horse					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	find	past · perfect · passive		youth				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme master=Attribute
5	is a	past		fodder	the manger	still		tree rules
6	is	past	the place				as a new pin; clean property	tree rules

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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