The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 76

The next morning had scarcely dawned when the youth went down to the shore, and began to play on his flute, and the first notes had hardly sounded when he saw a beautiful fairy standing before him, with hair and robes that shone like gold.

Who acts: youth, beautiful fairy, hair · What happens: dawn, go down, begin, play, sound, see · To what, where: next morning, flute, first notes, beautiful fairy

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 (youth, beautiful fairy, hair), 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	6 dawned	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dawned	aux
5	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	6 dawned	advmod
6	dawned	dawn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 went	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 youth	det
9	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dawned	advcl
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 shore	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shore	det
14	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dawned	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 play	mark
19	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 flute	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 flute	nmod:poss
22	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 play	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sounded	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sounded	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 notes	det
26	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 notes	amod
27	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sounded	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sounded	aux
29	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	30 sounded	advmod
30	sounded	sound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dawned	conj
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 saw	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 saw	nsubj
33	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sounded	advcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fairy	det
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fairy	amod
36	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 saw	obj
37	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 fairy	acl
38	before	before	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 standing	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 hair	punct
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 hair	case
42	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 standing	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 robes	cc
44	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 hair	conj
45	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 shone	nsubj
46	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 hair	acl:relcl
47	like	like	ADP	_	48 gold	case
48	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 shone	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dawned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dawn	past · perfect · passive		the next morning			scarcely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	go down	past	the youth				to the shore; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	begin	past						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	play	to-infinitive			youth's flute			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sound	past · perfect · passive		the first notes			hardly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
6	see	past	youth	a beautiful fairy				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus
7	stand	gerund	a beautiful fairy not said here			before youth	with hair and robes	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
8	shine	past	hair and robes				like gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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