--- title: It was scarcely light the next morning before the girl was sweeping… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It was scarcely light the next morning before the girl was sweeping out the rooms, and the boy watering the garden, so that by the time the good woman came downstairs there was nothing left for her to do. Who acts: lodging, girl, boy, good woman. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/48/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/) / 48 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 48 It was scarcely light the next morning before the girl was sweeping out the rooms, and the boy watering the garden, so that by the time the good woman came downstairs there was nothing left for her to do. **Who acts:** lodging, girl, boy, good woman, nothing · **What happens:** be, sweep out, water, come, leave, do · **To what, where:** scarcely light, rooms, garden, time This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lodging, girl, boy, good woman), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:33:48 # text = It was scarcely light the next morning before the girl was sweeping out the rooms, and the boy watering the garden, so that by the time the good woman came downstairs there was nothing left for her to do. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 scarcely scarcely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 before before SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 sweeping sweep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 20 watering water VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 so so SCONJ IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 downstairs downstairs ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 35 expl _ _ 35 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 36 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 35 nsubj _ _ 37 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | lodging | scarcely light and the boy and the time | | | morning | | tree rules | | 2 | **sweep out** | past · progressive | the girl | the rooms | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Trajectory | | 3 | **water** | gerund | the boy *not said here* | the garden | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent garden=Destination | | 4 | **come** | past | the good woman | the time *not said here* | | | | downstairs *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | | 5 | **be** | past | nothing | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **leave** | participle | | | | | | for woman | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for she=Recipient | | 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/49/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/)