The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 5
The parents were very devoted to the little creature, and nursed and tended it carefully.
Who acts: parents · What happens: be, nurse, tend · To what, where: creature
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 (parents), 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 | 2 parents | det |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 devoted | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 devoted | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 devoted | advmod |
| 5 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 creature | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 creature | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creature | amod |
| 9 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 devoted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nursed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 nursed | cc |
| 12 | nursed | nurse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 devoted | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tended | cc |
| 14 | tended | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 nursed | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tended | obj |
| 16 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 14 tended | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 devoted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the parents | to the little creature; devoted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | nurse | past | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | tend | past | creature | carefully property | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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