The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 34

Then the other horse spoke again: “The magician’s raven will try to eat us as we ride away, but throw it some of the oxen’s flesh, and then I will gallop like the wind, and carry you safe out of the dragon’s clutches.”

Who acts: other horse, raven, we, dragon · What happens: speak, try, eat, ride away, throw, gallop · To what, where: us, raven, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other horse, raven, we, dragon), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 spoke	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoke	nsubj
5	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 spoke	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 try	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 try	punct
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 magician	det
10	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 raven	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 magician	case
12	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 try	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 try	aux
14	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spoke	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 eat	mark
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 try	xcomp
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 eat	obj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 ride	mark
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 ride	nsubj
20	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	advcl
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 ride	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 throw	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 throw	cc
24	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 try	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 throw	obj
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 throw	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	31 flesh	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 oxen	det
29	oxen	oxen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flesh	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 oxen	case
31	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 some	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 gallop	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 gallop	cc
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 gallop	advmod
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 gallop	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 gallop	aux
37	gallop	gallop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 throw	parataxis
38	like	like	ADP	_	40 wind	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wind	det
40	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gallop	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 carry	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 carry	cc
43	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 try	conj
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 carry	obj
45	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 carry	xcomp
46	out	out	ADP	_	51 clutches	case
47	of	of	ADP	_	51 clutches	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 dragon	det
49	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 clutches	nmod:poss
50	’s	's	PART	_	49 dragon	case
51	clutches	clutch	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 safe	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spoke	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the other horse		then; again		tree rules
2	try in a quote	future	the magician's raven				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	eat not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the magician's raven not said here	us			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
4	ride away in a quote	present	we			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	throw in a quote	infinitive	the magician's raven not said here	raven			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination some=Theme
6	gallop in a quote	future	the other horse = horse		then	like the wind	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	carry in a quote	infinitive	the magician's raven not said here	you		safe property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
8	clutch in a quote		the dragon				nom clutch «act transitive»: poss=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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