--- title: The father was much astonished when he saw a stranger riding his hor… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The father was much astonished when he saw a stranger riding his horse, but the Hazel-nut child climbed down quickly and told him all that had happened, and his father had the robber arrested at once and put into prison. Who acts: father, stranger, nut child, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, stranger, nut child, that), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:40:32 # text = The father was much astonished when he saw a stranger riding his horse, but the Hazel-nut child climbed down quickly and told him all that had happened, and his father had the robber arrested at once and put into prison. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 much much ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 astonished astonished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 riding ride VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 Hazel hazel NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 nut nut NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 22 down down ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 30 det:predet _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 robber robber NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 arrested arrest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 38 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 conj _ _ 43 into into ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the father | | | | | astonished *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | past | father | a stranger | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus | | 3 | **ride** | gerund | a stranger *not said here* | father's horse | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | | 4 | **climb down** | past | the nut child | | | | | down, quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the nut child *not said here* | | father | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **happen** | past · perfect | that | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **have** | past | father's father | the robber | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Patient | | 8 | **arrest** | participle | | the robber *not said here* | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **put** | participle | | | | prison | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/40/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/40/33/) - ↑ back to [The Hazel-nut Child (29)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/40/)