The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 27
At midday the father turned to his small son and said, ‘Stay here and look after the horse.
Who acts: father · What happens: turn, say, stay, look · To what, where: midday · 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 (father), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 midday | case |
| 2 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 father | det |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 son | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 son | amod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Stay | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Stay | punct |
| 14 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 Stay | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 look | cc |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Stay | conj |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 horse | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 horse | det |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the father | midday | to father's small son | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at midday=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the father not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stay | infinitive | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | infinitive | after the horse | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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