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title: One autumn when the Hazel-nut child was twenty years old he said to… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One autumn when the Hazel-nut child was twenty years old he said to his parents: ‘Farewell, my dear father and mother. Who acts: nut child, One autumn. 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 33

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One autumn when the Hazel-nut child was twenty years old he said to his parents: ‘Farewell, my dear father and mother.

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**Who acts:** nut child, One autumn · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** parents · **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, One autumn), 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:pg640:40:33
# text = One autumn when the Hazel-nut child was twenty years old he said to his parents: ‘Farewell, my dear father and mother.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	Hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the nut child |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | One autumn |  | father's parents |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to parent=Recipient |

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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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