The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 53

'Yes, you shall have a bit,' said Covan the Brown-haired; and breaking off a piece he stretched it upwards to the raven, who ate it greedily.

Who acts: you, Covan, voice, raven · What happens: have, say, break off, stretch, eat · To what, where: bit, piece · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Covan, voice, raven), 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	_	6 have	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 have	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Brown	det
14	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 haired	punct
16	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Brown	amod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 stretched	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stretched	cc
19	breaking	break	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 stretched	csubj
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 breaking	compound:prt
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 piece	det
22	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 breaking	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stretched	nsubj
24	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stretched	obj
26	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	24 stretched	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 raven	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 raven	det
29	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stretched	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ate	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 ate	nsubj
32	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 raven	acl:relcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 ate	obj
34	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	32 ate	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	shall	you	a bit		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Covan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	break off	gerund		a piece		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Patient
4	stretch	past	voice	bit	to the raven result; upwards property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to raven=Result
5	eat	past	the raven	bit	greedily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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