The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 31

But the Hazel-nut child, who was the most active little creature, climbed up the horse’s tail and began to bite it on the back, enraging the creature to such an extent that it paid no attention to the direction the robber tried to make it go in, but galloped straight home.

Who acts: nut child, horse, robber · What happens: be, climb up, begin, bite, enrage, such · To what, where: active little creature, tail, back, creature, extent, attention

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, horse, robber), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 climbed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
3	Hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nut	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Hazel	punct
5	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 child	compound
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 climbed	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 creature	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 creature	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 creature	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 creature	det
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 active	advmod
12	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 creature	amod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 creature	amod
14	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 child	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 creature	punct
16	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 climbed	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 horse	det
19	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tail	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 horse	case
21	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 climbed	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 climbed	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 bite	mark
25	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bite	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 back	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 back	det
29	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bite	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 enraging	punct
31	enraging	enrage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 began	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 creature	det
33	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 enraging	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 such	mark
35	such	such	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 enraging	advcl
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 extent	det
37	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 such	obj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 paid	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 paid	nsubj
40	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 extent	acl
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 attention	det
42	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 paid	obj
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 direction	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 direction	det
45	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 paid	obl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 robber	det
47	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 tried	nsubj
48	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 direction	acl:relcl
49	to	to	PART	_	50 make	mark
50	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 tried	xcomp
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 make	obj
52	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 make	xcomp
53	in	in	ADV	_	52 go	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 galloped	punct
55	but	but	CCONJ	_	56 galloped	cc
56	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 climbed	conj
57	straight	straight	ADV	_	58 home	advmod
58	home	home	ADV	_	56 galloped	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the nut child	the active little creature			tree rules
2	climb up	past	the nut child	the horse's tail			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tail=Theme
3	begin	past	the nut child not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	bite	to-infinitive	the nut child not said here	tail	the back		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient on back=Location
5	enrage	gerund	the nut child not said here	the creature			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus creature=Experiencer
6	such	to-infinitive	the nut child not said here	a extent			tree rules
7	pay	past	horse	no attention		to the direction	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
8	try	past	the robber	the direction not said here			tree rules
9	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	the robber not said here	horse			tree rules
10	go in not said to happen	infinitive	horse not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	gallop	past	the nut child not said here			home property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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