The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 23

When he handed his mother the comb that his aunt had given him, she was much amazed and asked him, ‘But how did you manage to get back so quickly?’

Who acts: snail, mother, you · What happens: hand, give, be, ask, manage, get back · To what, where: comb, mother, aunt, snail · 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 (snail, mother, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 handed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 handed	nsubj
3	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 handed	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 comb	det
7	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 handed	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 given	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 aunt	nmod:poss
10	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 given	aux
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 handed	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 given	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 amazed	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 amazed	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 amazed	cop
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 amazed	advmod
18	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 handed	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asked	cc
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 handed	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	iobj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 manage	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 manage	punct
24	But	but	CCONJ	_	28 manage	cc
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 manage	advmod
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 manage	aux
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 manage	nsubj
28	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 asked	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 get	mark
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 manage	xcomp
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 get	advmod
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 quickly	advmod
33	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	30 get	advmod
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 manage	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hand	past	snail	the comb	snail's mother		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mother=Destination comb=Theme
2	give	past · perfect · passive		snail's aunt	snail		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme
3	is	past	mother			amazed property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	past	snail not said here		snail		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	manage	past · do-support	you				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	get back	to-infinitive	you not said here			quickly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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