--- title: With the earliest gleams of light, the boy was off with his sheep to… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: With the earliest gleams of light, the boy was off with his sheep to the elfin meadow, and at the first notes of his flute the maidens appeared before him and danced and danced and danced till evening came. Who acts: boy, first notes, evening. 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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 (boy, first notes, evening), 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:pg641:44:45 # text = With the earliest gleams of light, the boy was off with his sheep to the elfin meadow, and at the first notes of his flute the maidens appeared before him and danced and danced and danced till evening came. 1 With with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 earliest early ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 gleams gleam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 off off ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 elfin elfin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 amod _ _ 24 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 flute flute NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 31 before before ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 39 till till SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be off** | past | the boy | | | | | with the earliest gleams of light; with boy's sheep to the elfin meadow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **appear** | past | the first notes of boy's flute and the maidens | | | | before boy | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location | | 3 | **dance** | past | the first notes of boy's flute and the maidens *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **dance** | past | the first notes of boy's flute and the maidens *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **dance** | past | the first notes of boy's flute and the maidens *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **come** | past | evening | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **note** | | | boy's flute and the maidens | | | | | nom note «communication 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/44/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/44/46/) - ↑ back to [Mogarzea and His Son](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/44/)