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title: When the Hazel-nut child was fifteen years old, and was sitting one… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Hazel-nut child was fifteen years old, and was sitting one day in an egg-shell on the table beside his mother, she turned to him and said, ‘You are now fifteen years old, and nothing can be done with you. Who acts: nut child, old, You. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, T
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 7

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When the Hazel-nut child was fifteen years old, and was sitting one day in an egg-shell on the table beside his mother, she turned to him and said, ‘You are now fifteen years old, and nothing can be done with you.

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**Who acts:** nut child, old, You · **What happens:** be, sit, turn, say, do · **To what, where:** egg shell, Heaven, nothing · **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, old, You), 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:pg640:40:7
# text = When the Hazel-nut child was fifteen years old, and was sitting one day in an egg-shell on the table beside his mother, she turned to him and said, ‘You are now fifteen years old, and nothing can be done with you.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
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	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
25	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
36	‘	‘	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
39	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
40	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl:unmarked	_	_
42	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	conj	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	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 | **sit** | past · progressive | the nut child *not said here* |  |  | a egg shell | day | on the table; beside Heaven's mother | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shell=Location |
| 3 | **turn** | past | old |  | Heaven |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | old *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | You |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | can · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  | with you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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