The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 5

So directly it grew dark the young man went and hid himself near the apple tree to begin his watch, but the apples had scarcely begun to ripen before he fell asleep, and when he awoke at sunrise the apples were gone.

Who acts: tree, young man, man, apples · What happens: grow, go, hide, begin, ripen, fall · To what, where: man, apple tree, watch, apples, sunrise

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, young man, man, apples), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 directly	advmod
2	directly	directly	ADV	_	4 grew	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hid	cc
11	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 hid	obj
13	near	near	ADP	_	16 tree	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tree	det
15	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tree	compound
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hid	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 begin	mark
18	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hid	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 watch	nmod:poss
20	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 begin	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 begun	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 begun	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 apples	det
24	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 begun	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 begun	aux
26	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	27 begun	advmod
27	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 grew	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 ripen	mark
29	ripen	ripen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 begun	xcomp
30	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 fell	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fell	nsubj
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ripen	advcl
33	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fell	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 awoke	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 awoke	cc
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 awoke	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 awoke	nsubj
38	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 sunrise	case
40	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 awoke	obl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 apples	det
42	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 gone	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 gone	cop
44	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 sunrise	acl:relcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	tree				dark, directly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	the young man					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hide	past	the young man not said here	man	the apple tree			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient near tree=Location
4	begin	to-infinitive	the young man not said here	man's watch				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Eventuality
5	begin	past · perfect · passive		the apples			scarcely property	tree rules
6	ripen	to-infinitive						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	fall	past	man				asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	awake	past	man			sunrise		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	past	the apples	sunrise not said here			gone property	tree rules

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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