The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 84

The next morning he did exactly what the maiden had told him, and led the calf with the silken thread to the meadow, where it stuck to his side like a faithful dog.

Who acts: prince, thread · What happens: do, tell, lead, stick · To what, where: maiden, prince, calf, 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, thread), 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	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 what	advmod
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 told	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maiden	det
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 did	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 led	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 led	cc
15	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 calf	det
17	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 led	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 thread	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thread	det
20	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thread	amod
21	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 led	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 meadow	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 meadow	det
24	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 led	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stuck	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 stuck	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stuck	nsubj
28	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 meadow	acl:relcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 side	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 side	nmod:poss
31	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stuck	obl
32	like	like	ADP	_	35 dog	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 dog	det
34	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 dog	amod
35	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stuck	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	prince				morning		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the maiden	prince				tree rules
3	lead	past	prince not said here	the calf		the meadow		with the silken thread	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent calf=Theme to meadow=Destination
4	stick	past	thread					to prince's side; like a faithful dog	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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