The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 39

The Hazel-nut child flew through the air on the stork’s back, and when he wanted to rest he bound his silk cord on to the joint of the bird’s other wing, so that it could not fly any farther.

Who acts: nut child, man, cord · What happens: fly, want, rest, bind on, not fly · To what, where: air, silk cord

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, man, cord), 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	5 child	det
2	Hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nut	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Hazel	punct
4	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 child	compound
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	nsubj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 stork	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stork	det
12	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ’s	obl
13	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 ’s	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wanted	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wanted	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 wanted	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wanted	nsubj
19	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 rest	mark
21	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wanted	xcomp
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bound	nsubj
23	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 rest	ccomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 cord	nmod:poss
25	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cord	compound
26	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bound	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	23 bound	compound:prt
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 joint	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 joint	det
30	joint	joint	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bound	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	36 wing	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bird	det
33	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wing	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 bird	case
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 wing	amod
36	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 joint	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 fly	punct
38	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	43 fly	mark
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 so	fixed
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 fly	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 fly	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 fly	advmod
43	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wanted	conj
44	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	45 farther	det
45	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	43 fly	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the nut child		the air		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through air=Location
2	want	past	man				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	rest not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here				tree rules
4	bind on	past	man	man's silk cord		to the joint of the bird's other wing	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient to joint=Co-Patient
5	not fly	could	cord			far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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