--- title: ‘The next morning, as soon as it was light, one of the servants at t… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘The next morning, as soon as it was light, one of the servants at the castle, who had managed to escape, came to tell the poor lady of the sad fate of her husband and her pretty babes. Who acts: nurse, castle, next morning. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse, castle, next morning), 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:pg540:16:23 # text = ‘The next morning, as soon as it was light, one of the servants at the castle, who had managed to escape, came to tell the poor lady of the sad fate of her husband and her pretty babes. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 as as ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 managed manage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 27 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 babes babe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | nurse | | | | | light, soon *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **manage** | past · perfect | the castle | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **escape** | to-infinitive | the castle *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come** | past | the next morning | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the next morning *not said here* | | the poor lady of the sad fate of Beanstalk's husband and Beanstalk's pretty babes | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient | | 6 | **fate** | | | Beanstalk's husband and Beanstalk's pretty babes | | | | | nom fate «event 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/16/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/16/24/) - ↑ back to [Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/16/)