The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 47

That night, when the prince went to his master to hear what his next day’s work was to be, the old man said: ‘I have a little hay-stack out in the meadow which must be brought in to dry.

Who acts: prince, work, old man, I, little hay, next day · What happens: go, hear, be, say, have, stack out · To what, where: master, little hay, meadow · 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, work, old man, I), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 went	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 master	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 master	nmod:poss
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hear	mark
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	advcl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 hear	obj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 day	nmod:poss
15	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 work	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 day	case
18	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 what	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 be	cop
20	to	to	PART	_	21 be	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 what	cop
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
30	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 said	ccomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hay	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hay	amod
33	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 stack	punct
35	stack	stack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 hay	acl
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 stack	compound:prt
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 meadow	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 meadow	det
39	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stack	obl
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 brought	nsubj:pass
41	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 brought	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 brought	aux:pass
43	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 meadow	acl:relcl
44	in	in	ADP	_	43 brought	compound:prt
45	to	to	PART	_	46 dry	mark
46	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 brought	advcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	the prince		prince's master	night	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to master=Initial_Location
2	hear	to-infinitive	the prince not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	infinitive	prince's next day's work				tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the old man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have	present	I	a little hay			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient
6	stack out	infinitive	a little hay not said here		the meadow		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in meadow=Destination
7	bring in	must · passive		the meadow			vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
8	dry	to-infinitive					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	work		prince's next day				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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