The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 3

She returned, dragging a hazel nut behind her, which she laid at the Prince’s feet and said, ‘Take this nut home with you and tell your father to crack it very carefully, and you’ll see then what will happen.’

Who acts: toad, hazel nut, you · What happens: return, drag, lay, say, take, tell · To what, where: hazel nut, feet, nut, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toad, hazel nut, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dragging	punct
4	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 returned	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nut	det
6	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nut	compound
7	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragging	obj
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nut	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laid	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 laid	nsubj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laid	nsubj
13	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nut	parataxis
14	at	at	ADP	_	18 feet	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Prince	det
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 feet	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Prince	case
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 laid	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 laid	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Take	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Take	punct
23	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 nut	det
25	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Take	obj
26	home	home	ADV	_	23 Take	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 Take	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tell	cc
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 Take	conj
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 father	nmod:poss
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	iobj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 crack	mark
34	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 tell	xcomp
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 crack	obj
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 carefully	advmod
37	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	34 crack	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 see	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 see	cc
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 see	nsubj
41	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 see	aux
42	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 returned	parataxis
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 happen	advmod
44	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	46 happen	nsubj
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 happen	aux
46	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 see	ccomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 see	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	42 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	toad						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drag	gerund	toad not said here	a hazel nut				behind toad	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme
3	lay	past	a hazel nut			the Prince's feet			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at foot=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past	a hazel nut not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take	infinitive		this nut				with you; home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	infinitive			your father				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
7	crack not said to happen	to-infinitive		nut				carefully property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
8	see	future	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	happen	future					then		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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