The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 35

Hardly had he done so when two ravens flew down and perched on a tree near by, and began to talk to each other in their own language: “If that shepherd only knew that there is a vault full of gold and silver beneath where that lamb is lying, what would he not do?”

Who acts: shepherd, two ravens, that, vault, lamb · What happens: have, do, fly down, perch, begin, talk · To what, where: shepherd, tree, own language, vault · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, two ravens, that, vault), 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	Hardly	hardly	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	obj
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	xcomp
5	so	so	ADV	_	9 flew	advmod
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 flew	mark
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 ravens	nummod
8	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 flew	nsubj
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 flew	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 perched	cc
12	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 flew	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 tree	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perched	obl
16	near	near	ADP	_	12 perched	dep
17	by	by	ADP	_	16 near	fixed
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 talk	mark
22	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 each	case
24	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	22 talk	obl
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 each	fixed
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 language	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 language	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 language	amod
29	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 talk	obl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 shepherd	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 shepherd	punct
32	If	if	SCONJ	_	34 shepherd	mark
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 shepherd	nsubj
34	shepherd	shepherd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
35	only	only	ADV	_	36 knew	advmod
36	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 shepherd	ccomp
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 is	mark
38	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 is	expl
39	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 knew	ccomp
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 vault	det
41	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 is	nsubj
42	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 vault	amod
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 gold	case
44	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 full	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 silver	cc
46	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 gold	conj
47	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	52 lying	mark
48	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	52 lying	advmod
49	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 lamb	det
50	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 lying	nsubj
51	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 lying	aux
52	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 full	advcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 do	punct
54	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	58 do	obj
55	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 do	aux
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 do	nsubj
57	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	58 do	advmod
58	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 vault	acl:relcl
59	?	?	PUNCT	_	36 knew	punct
60	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 shepherd	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past		shepherd		hardly property	tree rules
2	do	participle	shepherd not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fly down	past	two ravens				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	perch	participle	two ravens not said here		a tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location
5	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	talk	to-infinitive			ravens's own language	to each	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent
7	shepherd a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	that				tree rules
8	know in a quote	past	that not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	be in a quote	present	a vault		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	lie in a quote	present · progressive	that lamb				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	not do in a quote	would	shepherd	a vault			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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