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title: Morning had hardly dawned when the Fairy awoke the Prince, and givin… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 72

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Morning had hardly dawned when the Fairy awoke the Prince, and giving him the glass axe again she told him to cut up all the wood he had felled the day before, and to put it in bundles ready for firewood; at the same time she warned him once more against approaching or speaking a word to the black girl if he met her in the wood.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, Prince · **What happens:** dawn, awake, give, tell, cut up, fell · **To what, where:** Morning, Prince, glass axe, wood, AXE, bundles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg640:25:72
# text = Morning had hardly dawned when the Fairy awoke the Prince, and giving him the glass axe again she told him to cut up all the wood he had felled the day before, and to put it in bundles ready for firewood; at the same time she warned him once more against approaching or speaking a word to the black girl if he met her in the wood.
1	Morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dawned	dawn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	felled	fell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	before	before	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	bundles	bundle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
41	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	firewood	firewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	warned	warn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
51	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	53	advmod	_	_
53	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	50	advmod	_	_
54	against	against	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	50	ccomp	_	_
56	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	55	conj	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
60	to	to	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
62	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
64	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	66	mark	_	_
65	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
66	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	advcl	_	_
67	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	obj	_	_
68	in	in	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
70	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dawn** | past · perfect · passive |  | Morning |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **awake** | past | the Fairy | the Prince |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prince=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | gerund |  | the glass axe | Prince |  | again |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient axe=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Fairy |  | Prince |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **cut up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Fairy *not said here* | all wood |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product |
| 6 | **fell** | past · perfect | Prince | all wood *not said here* |  |  | day | before *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **put** | to-infinitive | Fairy *not said here* | AXE |  | bundles |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bundle=Destination |
| 8 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | Fairy |  | Prince |  | time |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 9 | **approach** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  | a word |  |  |  | to the black girl | tree rules |
| 11 | **meet** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Prince | Fairy |  | the wood |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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