The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 70

Before the dawn he was awake again, and his first care was to give to each of his horses as much corn as he could eat, and then to lead them to the well to water.

Who acts: Petru, first care · What happens: be, give, eat, lead, care · To what, where: each, eyes, well

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru, first care), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	3 dawn	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dawn	det
3	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 awake	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 awake	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 awake	cop
6	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 awake	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 give	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 care	nmod:poss
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 care	amod
12	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 give	aux
14	to	to	PART	_	15 give	mark
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 awake	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 each	case
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 give	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 horses	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 horses	nmod:poss
20	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 each	nmod
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 corn	case
22	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 corn	amod
23	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 eat	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 eat	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 eat	aux
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 give	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lead	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lead	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 lead	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 lead	mark
32	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 eat	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lead	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 well	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 well	det
36	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lead	obl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 water	case
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 well	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 awake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Petru				again; dawn	awake property	tree rules
2	give	past	Petru's first care		each			as much corn	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
3	eat	could	Petru						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lead	to-infinitive	Petru not said here	eyes = eye		the well to water	then		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to well=Destination
5	care		Petru						nom care «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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