Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 7

As he drew near, the raven said, ‘I am by birth a king’s daughter, but am now under the spell of some enchantment; you can, however, set me free.’

Who acts: man, raven, I · What happens: draw, say, be, set · To what, where: spell, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, raven, I), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 drew	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
4	near	near	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 raven	det
7	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 birth	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 birth	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 birth	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 birth	cop
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 birth	case
14	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 daughter	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 king	case
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 birth	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spell	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 spell	cc
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 spell	cop
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 spell	advmod
23	under	under	ADP	_	25 spell	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 spell	det
25	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 enchantment	case
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 enchantment	det
28	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spell	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 can	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 can	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 set	aux
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 can	punct
33	however	however	ADV	_	35 set	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 however	punct
35	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 set	obj
37	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 set	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 set	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	35 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	man				near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the raven					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	present	I				by birth; a king's daughter nmod	tree rules
4	is	present			the spell	now	of some enchantment	tree rules
5	set	can		me			free, however property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/47/7/