The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 39

The dawn had scarcely reddened the sky when the prince jumped out of bed, and, with the pan of coals in one hand and the milk pail in the other, went straight to the cow’s stall, and began to do exactly as the maiden had told him the evening before.

Who acts: prince, pan · What happens: redden, jump out, go, begin, do, tell · To what, where: dawn, bed, stall, maiden, pan · 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 (prince, pan), 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 dawn	det
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reddened	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reddened	aux
4	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	5 reddened	advmod
5	reddened	redden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sky	det
7	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reddened	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 jumped	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 jumped	nsubj
11	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reddened	advcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	14 bed	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 bed	case
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 jumped	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pan	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 pan	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pan	det
20	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 coals	case
22	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pan	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 hand	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 hand	nummod
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 coals	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pail	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pail	det
28	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pail	compound
29	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hand	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 other	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 other	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pail	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pan	punct
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reddened	parataxis
35	straight	straight	ADV	_	40 stall	advmod
36	to	to	ADP	_	40 stall	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 cow	det
38	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stall	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 cow	case
40	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 began	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 began	cc
43	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 went	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 do	mark
45	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 began	xcomp
46	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	51 told	advmod
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 told	mark
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 maiden	det
49	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 told	nsubj:pass
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 told	aux
51	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 do	advcl
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 told	iobj
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 evening	det
54	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 told	obl:unmarked
55	before	before	ADV	_	51 told	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reddened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	redden	past · perfect · passive		the dawn				scarcely property	tree rules
2	jump out	past	the prince	bed					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Trajectory
3	go	past	the pan of coals in one hand and the milk pail in the other			the cow's stall			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stall=Initial_Location
4	begin	past	the pan of coals in one hand and the milk pail in the other not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	do	to-infinitive	the pan of coals in one hand and the milk pail in the other not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the maiden	pan		evening	before, exactly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic

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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