The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 45

With the earliest gleams of light, the boy was off with his sheep to the elfin meadow, and at the first notes of his flute the maidens appeared before him and danced and danced and danced till evening came.

Who acts: boy, first notes, evening · What happens: be off, appear, dance, come, note · To what, where: flute

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, first notes, evening), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 gleams	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gleams	det
3	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 gleams	amod
4	gleams	gleam	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 was	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 light	case
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gleams	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gleams	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 was	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 sheep	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sheep	nmod:poss
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 was	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 meadow	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 meadow	det
17	elfin	elfin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 meadow	amod
18	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sheep	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 appeared	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 appeared	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 notes	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 notes	det
23	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 notes	amod
24	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 appeared	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 flute	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 flute	nmod:poss
27	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 notes	nmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 maidens	det
29	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 flute	conj
30	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 was	parataxis
31	before	before	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 appeared	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 danced	cc
34	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 appeared	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 danced	cc
36	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 danced	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 danced	cc
38	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 danced	conj
39	till	till	SCONJ	_	41 came	mark
40	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 came	nsubj
41	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 danced	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	be off	past	the boy			with the earliest gleams of light; with boy's sheep to the elfin meadow	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	appear	past	the first notes of boy's flute and the maidens		before boy		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location
3	dance	past	the first notes of boy's flute and the maidens not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dance	past	the first notes of boy's flute and the maidens not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dance	past	the first notes of boy's flute and the maidens not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past	evening				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	note			boy's flute and the maidens			nom note «communication transitive»: of=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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