The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 33

One autumn when the Hazel-nut child was twenty years old he said to his parents: ‘Farewell, my dear father and mother.

Who acts: nut child, One autumn · What happens: be, say · To what, where: parents · 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 (nut child, One autumn), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 autumn	nummod
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 old	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
5	Hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nut	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Hazel	punct
7	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 child	compound
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 old	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 old	cop
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 old	obl:unmarked
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	advcl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 parents	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 parents	nmod:poss
17	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 said	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 father	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 father	punct
20	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	24 father	discourse
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 father	punct
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
23	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 father	amod
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 mother	cc
26	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 father	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the nut child				year	old property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	One autumn		father's parents				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to parent=Recipient

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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