The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 7

When the Hazel-nut child was fifteen years old, and was sitting one day in an egg-shell on the table beside his mother, she turned to him and said, ‘You are now fifteen years old, and nothing can be done with you.

Who acts: nut child, old, You · What happens: be, sit, turn, say, do · To what, where: egg shell, Heaven, nothing · 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, old, You), 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	SCONJ	_	10 old	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
3	Hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nut	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Hazel	punct
5	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 child	compound
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 old	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop
8	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 old	obl:unmarked
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 turned	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sitting	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sitting	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sitting	aux
14	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 old	advcl
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 day	nummod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sitting	obl:unmarked
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 shell	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 shell	det
19	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shell	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 egg	punct
21	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sitting	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 table	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 table	det
24	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sitting	obl
25	beside	beside	ADP	_	27 mother	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mother	nmod:poss
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sitting	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 turned	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 turned	nsubj
30	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 turned	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 turned	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 old	punct
36	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	42 old	mark
37	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 old	nsubj
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 old	cop
39	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 fifteen	advmod
40	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 years	nummod
41	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 old	obl:unmarked
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 said	ccomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 done	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 done	cc
45	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	48 done	nsubj:pass
46	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 done	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 done	aux:pass
48	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 old	conj
49	with	with	ADP	_	50 you	case
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 done	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the nut child				year	old property	tree rules
2	sit	past · progressive	the nut child not said here			a egg shell	day	on the table; beside Heaven's mother	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shell=Location
3	turn	past	old		Heaven				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
4	say speech: assert	past	old not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	You				year	old property	tree rules
6	do	can · passive		nothing				with you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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