The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 98

Then came the black raven of Corri- nan-creag, whose eyes never closed, and whose wings never tired; and he fluttered before the face of Covan and told him that he knew of a cranny in the rock where there was food in plenty, and soft moss for a bed.

Who acts: black raven, raven · What happens: come, not close, flutter, tell, know · To what, where: eyes, face, raven, rock · 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 (black raven, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 raven	det
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 raven	amod
5	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 creag	case
7	Corri	Corri	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 creag	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Corri	punct
9	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 creag	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 nan	punct
11	creag	creag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raven	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eyes	punct
13	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 creag	appos
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 closed	advmod
16	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 eyes	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tired	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tired	cc
19	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	20 wings	nmod:poss
20	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tired	nsubj
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 tired	advmod
22	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	parataxis
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 fluttered	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fluttered	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fluttered	nsubj
26	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
27	before	before	ADP	_	29 face	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 face	det
29	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fluttered	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Covan	case
31	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 face	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 told	cc
33	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 told	iobj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 knew	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 knew	nsubj
37	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 told	advcl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 cranny	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 cranny	det
40	cranny	cranny	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 knew	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 rock	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 rock	det
43	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 knew	obl
44	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	46 was	advmod
45	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	46 was	expl
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 rock	acl:relcl
47	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 was	nsubj
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 plenty	case
49	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 was	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 moss	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 moss	cc
52	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 moss	amod
53	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	parataxis
54	for	for	ADP	_	56 bed	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 bed	det
56	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 moss	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the black raven of Corri nan creag				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not close	participle		Corri nan creag's eyes not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	flutter	past	raven			the face of Covan			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before face=Location
4	tell speech: assert	past	the black raven of Corri nan creag not said here		raven				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	know	past	raven			the rock		of a cranny	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of cranny=Stimulus

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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