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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 20

When they reached the village, the Hazel-nut child left off pricking the horse, and the poor tired creature pursued its way at a snail’s pace.

Who acts: efforts, poor tired creature · What happens: reach, leave off, prick, pursue · To what, where: village, nut child, horse, way

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 (efforts, poor tired creature), 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

marknsubjdetobjpunctdetcompoundpunctcompoundconjaclcompound:prtadvcldetobjpunctccdetamodamodnsubjconjnmod:possobjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctrootWhenSCONJtheyPRONreachedVERBtheDETvillageNOUN,PUNCTtheDETHazelNOUN-PUNCTnutNOUNchildNOUNleftVERBoffADPprickingVERBtheDEThorseNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETpoorADJtiredADJcreatureNOUNpursuedVERBitsPRONwayNOUNatADPaDETsnailNOUN’sPARTpaceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenSCONJ_3 reachedmark
2theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 reachednsubj
3reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 villagedet
5villagevillageNOUNNumber=Sing3 reachedobj
6,,PUNCT_11 childpunct
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 childdet
8HazelhazelNOUNNumber=Sing10 nutcompound
9--PUNCT_8 Hazelpunct
10nutnutNOUNNumber=Sing11 childcompound
11childchildNOUNNumber=Sing5 villageconj
12leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 childacl
13offoffADP_12 leftcompound:prt
14prickingprickVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 leftadvcl
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 horsedet
16horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing14 prickingobj
17,,PUNCT_23 pursuedpunct
18andandCCONJ_23 pursuedcc
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 creaturedet
20poorpoorADJDegree=Pos22 creatureamod
21tiredtiredADJDegree=Pos22 creatureamod
22creaturecreatureNOUNNumber=Sing23 pursuednsubj
23pursuedpursueVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 reachedconj
24itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 waynmod:poss
25waywayNOUNNumber=Sing23 pursuedobj
26atatADP_30 pacecase
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 snaildet
28snailsnailNOUNNumber=Sing30 pacenmod:poss
29’s'sPART_28 snailcase
30pacepaceNOUNNumber=Sing23 pursuedobl
31..PUNCT_3 reachedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reachpastefforts = effortthe village and the nut childvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent village=Theme
2leave offparticiplethe nut child not said herevn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3prickgerundthe horsevn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Patient
4pursuepastthe poor tired creaturehorse's wayat a snail's pacevn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent way=Theme at pace=Trajectory

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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