The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 98

For when a reindeer calf has reached the age at which he begins first to lose his hair he is so swift that neither beast nor bird can come near him.

Who acts: calf, beast · What happens: reach, begin, lose, be, come · To what, where: reindeer calf, age, hair

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (calf, beast), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	SCONJ	_	7 reached	mark
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 reached	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 calf	det
4	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 calf	compound
5	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	nsubj:pass
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reached	aux
7	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 swift	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 age	det
9	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 begins	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 begins	nsubj
13	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 age	acl:relcl
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 begins	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 lose	mark
16	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 begins	xcomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hair	nmod:poss
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lose	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lose	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 swift	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 swift	advmod
22	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 come	mark
24	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	25 beast	det
25	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 come	nsubj
26	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	27 bird	cc
27	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 beast	conj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 come	aux
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 swift	ccomp
30	near	near	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 come	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 swift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	present · perfect · passive		a reindeer calf			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary age=Theme
2	begin	present	calf		at the age	first property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	lose	to-infinitive	calf	calf's hair			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Eventuality
4	is	present				swift property	tree rules
5	come	can	neither beast nor bird			near calf	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=Location

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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