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title: But the Hazel-nut child replied, ‘Nevertheless I mean to be a messen… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Hazel-nut child replied, ‘Nevertheless I mean to be a messenger! Who acts: nut child, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 13

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But the Hazel-nut child replied, ‘Nevertheless I mean to be a messenger!

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**Who acts:** nut child, I · **What happens:** reply, mean, be · **To what, where:** messenger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:40:13
# text = But the Hazel-nut child replied, ‘Nevertheless I mean to be a messenger!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	Hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle | the nut child |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | I |  |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a messenger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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