The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 43

The Hazel-nut child fastened the diamond firmly under the stork’s neck with a ribbon, and when he saw that the other storks were getting ready for their northern flight, he untied the silk cord from his stork’s wings, and away they went, getting nearer home every minute.

Who acts: nut child, man, other storks, children · What happens: fasten, see, get, untie, go · To what, where: diamond, neck, silk cord · 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, man, other storks, 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	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 fastened	nsubj
6	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 diamond	det
8	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fastened	obj
9	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	6 fastened	advmod
10	under	under	ADP	_	14 neck	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stork	det
12	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 neck	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 stork	case
14	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fastened	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 ribbon	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ribbon	det
17	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 neck	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 saw	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fastened	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 getting	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 storks	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 storks	amod
26	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 getting	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 getting	aux
28	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 saw	ccomp
29	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 getting	xcomp
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 flight	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 flight	nmod:poss
32	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 flight	amod
33	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ready	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 untied	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 untied	nsubj
36	untied	untie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cord	det
38	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cord	compound
39	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 untied	obj
40	from	from	ADP	_	44 wings	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 stork	nmod:poss
42	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 wings	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 stork	case
44	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 untied	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 went	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 went	cc
47	away	away	ADV	_	49 went	advmod
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 went	nsubj
49	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 getting	punct
51	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 went	advcl
52	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	51 getting	xcomp
53	home	home	ADV	_	51 getting	advmod
54	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	55 minute	det
55	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 getting	obl:unmarked
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fasten	past	the nut child	the diamond	the stork's neck with a ribbon		firmly property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diamond=Patient
2	see	past	man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	get	past · progressive	the other storks				ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	untie	past	man	the silk cord			from man's stork's wings	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cord=Patient from wing=Co-Patient
5	go	past	children = child				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	get	gerund	children = child not said here			minute	home, near property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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