The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 21
The Hazel-nut child took advantage of this, and crept down the horse’s leg; then he ran to his aunt and asked her for a comb.
Who acts: nut child, snail · What happens: take, creep, run, ask · To what, where: advantage, leg, mother
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, snail), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 2 | Hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nut | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hazel | punct |
| 4 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 child | compound |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 advantage | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crept | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 crept | cc |
| 12 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 leg | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leg | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 17 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crept | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 ran | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 ran | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ran | nsubj |
| 21 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 aunt | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 24 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ran | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 asked | cc |
| 26 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ran | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 asked | iobj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 comb | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 comb | det |
| 30 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 asked | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the nut child | advantage of this | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | creep | past | the nut child not said here | the horse's leg | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down leg=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | run | past | snail | then | to snail's aunt result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to aunt=Result | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | snail not said here | mother | for a comb | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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