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

When his father had gone, a robber passed by and saw the horse grazing without any one watching it, for of course he could not see the Hazel-nut child hidden in the grass.

Who acts: father, one · What happens: go, pass by, see, watch, not see, hide · To what, where: robber, horse grazing, grazing, Hazel nut child, grass

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, one), 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	SCONJ	_	5 gone	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 see	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 robber	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 robber	det
8	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
9	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 robber	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	9 passed	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saw	cc
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grazing	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grazing	compound
15	grazing	grazing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
16	without	without	ADP	_	18 one	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obl
19	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 one	acl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 watching	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 see	mark
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 for	fixed
24	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 of	fixed
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 see	advmod
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 child	det
30	Hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 child	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Hazel	punct
32	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 child	compound
33	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	obj
34	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 child	acl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 grass	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 grass	det
37	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hidden	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	father's father	a robber			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass by	participle		a robber not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	father's father not said here	the horse grazing		without any one	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grazing=Stimulus
4	watch	gerund	any one not said here	grazing			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	not see	could	father	the Hazel nut child			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
6	hide	participle		the Hazel nut child not said here	the grass		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location

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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