--- title: At the first blast, the fox, which was asleep in the cage in the cou… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At the first blast, the fox, which was asleep in the cage in the courtyard, awoke, and knew that his master needed help. Who acts: fox, master. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/51/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (li…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/) / 51 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 51 At the first blast, the fox, which was asleep in the cage in the courtyard, awoke, and knew that his master needed help. **Who acts:** fox, master · **What happens:** be, awake, know, need · **To what, where:** cage, first blast, help · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, master), 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:pg641:5:51 # text = At the first blast, the fox, which was asleep in the cage in the courtyard, awoke, and knew that his master needed help. 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 4 blast blast NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 19 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 27 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the fox | | | the cage in the courtyard | | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **awake** | past | | | | the first blast and the fox | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at blast=Location | | 3 | **know** | past | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **need** | past | fox's master | help | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | 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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/52/) - ↑ back to [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/)