--- title: Next morning, when day was beginning to dawn, the King’s Master of t… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Next morning, when day was beginning to dawn, the King’s Master of the Horse let out the seven foals; and they ran away, and the youth after them just as it chanced, over hill and dale, through woods end bogs. Who acts: Master, foals, youth, woods. 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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 (Master, foals, youth, woods), 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:pg540:49:10 # text = Next morning, when day was beginning to dawn, the King’s Master of the Horse let out the seven foals; and they ran away, and the youth after them just as it chanced, over hill and dale, through woods end bogs. 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 beginning begin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’s 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 Master Master PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 out out ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 foals foal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 32 after after ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nmod _ _ 34 just just ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 chanced chance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 over over ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 dale dale NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 through through SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 45 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 46 end end VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 47 bogs bog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past · progressive | the King's Master of the Horse *not said here* | | | | day | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **let out** | past | the King's Master of the Horse | the seven foals | | | morning | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Theme | | 3 | **run away** | past | foals *= foal* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **chance** | past | the youth after foals | | | hill and dale | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over hill=Location | | 5 | **end** | present | woods | bogs | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bog=Eventuality | 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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/11/) - ↑ back to [The Seven Foals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/)