The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 4

But, unluckily, at the very moment that he should have set out, the master fell suddenly ill, and told one of his apprentices that he must go in his stead.

Who acts: moment, master, barber · What happens: set out, fall, tell, go · To what, where: barber, one, stead · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment, master, barber), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 fell	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 moment	punct
3	unluckily	unluckily	ADV	_	8 moment	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 moment	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 moment	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moment	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 moment	advmod
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 set	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 set	nsubj:pass
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 set	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 set	aux
13	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 moment	acl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 set	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 moment	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 master	det
17	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	nsubj
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	20 ill	advmod
20	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fell	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fell	conj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 told	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 apprentices	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 apprentices	nmod:poss
27	apprentices	apprentice	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 go	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 go	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 go	aux
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 told	ccomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 stead	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 stead	nmod:poss
34	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set out	should · perfect · passive	the moment not said here	barber				tree rules
2	fall	past	the master			moment	ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the master not said here	one of barber's apprentices				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go	must	barber		barber's stead			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in stead=Location

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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