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title: But the Hazel-nut child, who was the most active little creature, cl… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Hazel-nut child, who was the most active little creature, climbed up the horse’s tail and began to bite it on the back, enraging the creature to such an extent that it paid no attention to the direction the robber tried to make it go in, but galloped straight home. Who acts: nut child, horse
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 31

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But the Hazel-nut child, who was the most active little creature, climbed up the horse’s tail and began to bite it on the back, enraging the creature to such an extent that it paid no attention to the direction the robber tried to make it go in, but galloped straight home.

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**Who acts:** nut child, horse, robber · **What happens:** be, climb up, begin, bite, enrage, such · **To what, where:** active little creature, tail, back, creature, extent, attention

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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, horse, robber), 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:pg640:40:31
# text = But the Hazel-nut child, who was the most active little creature, climbed up the horse’s tail and began to bite it on the back, enraging the creature to such an extent that it paid no attention to the direction the robber tried to make it go in, but galloped straight home.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	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	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	enraging	enrage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	such	such	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl	_	_
41	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	42	det	_	_
42	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
53	in	in	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
57	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	home	home	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the nut child | the active little creature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **climb up** | past | the nut child | the horse's tail |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tail=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the nut child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **bite** | to-infinitive | the nut child *not said here* | tail |  | the back |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient on back=Location |
| 5 | **enrage** | gerund | the nut child *not said here* | the creature |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus creature=Experiencer |
| 6 | **such** | to-infinitive | the nut child *not said here* | a extent |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **pay** | past | horse | no attention |  |  |  | to the direction | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
| 8 | **try** | past | the robber | the direction *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the robber *not said here* | horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **go in** *not said to happen* | infinitive | horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **gallop** | past | the nut child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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