The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 103
'Spare me a morsel, Ardan son of Gorla,' asked a raven, fluttering down towards him.
What happens: spare, ask, flutter down · To what, where: me, raven · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spare | punct |
| 2 | Spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Spare | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 morsel | det |
| 5 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Spare | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 7 | Ardan | Ardan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 son | compound |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 morsel | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Gorla | case |
| 10 | Gorla | Gorla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spare | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spare | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 raven | det |
| 15 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fluttering | punct |
| 17 | fluttering | flutter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 asked | advcl |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 fluttering | advmod |
| 19 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fluttering | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | infinitive | me | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient morsel=Asset | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a raven | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent raven=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | flutter down | gerund | towards blessing; down property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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