The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 13
But the Hazel-nut child replied, ‘Nevertheless I mean to be a messenger!
Who acts: nut child, I · What happens: reply, mean, be · To what, where: messenger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nut child, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 3 | Hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nut | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hazel | punct |
| 5 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 child | compound |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mean | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 mean | punct |
| 10 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 12 mean | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 mean | nsubj |
| 12 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 messenger | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 messenger | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 messenger | det |
| 16 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mean | ccomp |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | the nut child | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | I | nevertheless property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | a messenger | tree rules |
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 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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