The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 32

The father was much astonished when he saw a stranger riding his horse, but the Hazel-nut child climbed down quickly and told him all that had happened, and his father had the robber arrested at once and put into prison.

Who acts: father, stranger, nut child, that · What happens: be, see, ride, climb down, tell, happen · To what, where: stranger, horse, father, robber, prison · 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, stranger, nut child, that), 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	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 astonished	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 astonished	advmod
5	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stranger	acl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 horse	nmod:poss
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 riding	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 climbed	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 climbed	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 child	det
17	Hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nut	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Hazel	punct
19	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 child	compound
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 climbed	nsubj
21	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	parataxis
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 climbed	advmod
23	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	21 climbed	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 told	cc
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 climbed	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 happened	det:predet
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 happened	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 happened	aux
30	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 told	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 had	cc
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 father	nmod:poss
34	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 climbed	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 robber	det
37	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 had	obj
38	arrested	arrest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 robber	acl
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 once	case
40	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	38 arrested	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 put	cc
42	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 arrested	conj
43	into	into	ADP	_	44 prison	case
44	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 put	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the father				astonished property	tree rules
2	see	past	father	a stranger				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus
3	ride	gerund	a stranger not said here	father's horse				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
4	climb down	past	the nut child				down, quickly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	the nut child not said here		father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	happen	past · perfect	that					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	have	past	father's father	the robber				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Patient
8	arrest	participle		the robber not said here				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	put	participle				prison		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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