The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 9
‘A messenger,’ answered the Hazel-nut child.
Who acts: messenger · What happens: answer · To what, where: nut child
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 (messenger), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 messenger | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 messenger | det |
| 3 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 messenger | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 messenger | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 8 | Hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nut | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hazel | punct |
| 10 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 child | compound |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | a messenger | the nut child | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent child=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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