The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 4
At last Heaven heard their prayer and sent them a child exactly the size of a hazel-nut, and it never grew an inch.
Who acts: nut, children · What happens: hear, send, not grow, pray · To what, where: prayer, last Heaven, children, inch
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, children), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Heaven | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Heaven | amod |
| 3 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 6 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sent | cc |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sent | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obj |
| 12 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 14 size | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 size | det |
| 14 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 nut | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 nut | det |
| 17 | hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nut | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 hazel | punct |
| 19 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 size | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 grew | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 grew | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 grew | nsubj |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 grew | advmod |
| 24 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 inch | det |
| 26 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grew | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | children's prayer | last Heaven | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prayer=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | send | past | children = child | the size of a hazel nut obl | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination child=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not grow | past | nut | a inch | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location inch=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pray | children = child | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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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