The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 36
In the evening the Hazel-nut child crept on to the roof, where some storks had built their nest.
Who acts: Hazel nut child · What happens: creep on, build · To what, where: roof, storks
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 (Hazel nut child), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crept | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 5 | Hazel | Hazel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 child | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hazel | punct |
| 7 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 child | compound |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crept | nsubj |
| 9 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 crept | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 roof | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 roof | det |
| 13 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crept | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 built | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 built | advmod |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 storks | det |
| 17 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 built | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 built | aux |
| 19 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 roof | acl:relcl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 nest | nmod:poss |
| 21 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 built | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep on | past | the Hazel nut child | the roof | evening | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to roof=Destination | |||
| 2 | build | past · perfect · passive | some storks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary nest=Product |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/40/36/