The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 41
When the people saw the Hazel-nut child they were much astonished, and took him with the stork to the King of the country.
Who acts: people · What happens: see, be, take · To what, where: Hazel nut child, man
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 (people), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 6 | Hazel | Hazel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 child | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hazel | punct |
| 8 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 child | compound |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 astonished | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 astonished | cop |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 astonished | advmod |
| 13 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 child | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 stork | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stork | det |
| 20 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 King | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 stork | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 country | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 country | det |
| 26 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 King | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the people | the Hazel nut child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | people | the Hazel nut child not said here | astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | past | the people not said here | man | with the stork to the King of the country | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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