The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 12

The sun had hardly risen the following morning when the princess’s nurse brought the young man to her apartments.

Who acts: sun, nurse · What happens: rise, follow, bring · To what, where: young man

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, nurse), 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 risen	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 risen	aux
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 risen	advmod
5	risen	rise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
7	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 morning	amod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 risen	obl:unmarked
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 brought	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nurse	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 princess	case
13	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	nsubj
14	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 risen	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 apartments	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 apartments	nmod:poss
20	apartments	apartment	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 brought	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 risen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past · perfect	the sun		morning	hardly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bring	past	the princess's nurse	the young man		to nurse's apartments	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination

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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