The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 99

'Go with me thither,' he said to Covan, 'and you shall lay aside three-thirds of your weariness, and depart in the morning refreshed,' and Covan listened thankfully to his words, and at dawn he rose up to seek his cows.

Who acts: you, raven, morning, Covan · What happens: go, say, lay, depart, refresh, listen · To what, where: Covan, three thirds, cows · 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, raven, morning, Covan), 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 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Go	obl
5	thither	thither	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Covan	case
11	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Covan	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 Covan	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lay	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 lay	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 lay	aux
17	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
18	aside	aside	ADV	_	17 lay	advmod
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 thirds	nummod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 three	punct
21	thirds	third	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lay	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 weariness	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 weariness	nmod:poss
24	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thirds	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 depart	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 depart	cc
27	depart	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	advcl
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	31 refreshed	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 morning	det
30	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 refreshed	nsubj
31	refreshed	refresh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 depart	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 refreshed	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 refreshed	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 listened	cc
35	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 listened	nsubj
36	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 refreshed	conj
37	thankfully	thankfully	ADV	_	36 listened	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 words	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 words	nmod:poss
40	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 listened	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 rose	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 rose	cc
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 dawn	case
44	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 rose	obl
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 rose	nsubj
46	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 refreshed	conj
47	up	up	ADP	_	46 rose	compound:prt
48	to	to	PART	_	49 seek	mark
49	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 rose	advcl
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 cows	nmod:poss
51	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 seek	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here				with me; thither property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert	past	raven		Covan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to covan=Recipient
3	lay	shall	you	three thirds of your weariness			aside property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Result
4	depart	present	you not said here					tree rules
5	refresh	past	the morning					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	listen	past	Covan				to raven's words; thankfully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
7	rise up	past	raven			dawn		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	seek	to-infinitive	raven not said here	raven's cows				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
9	word		raven					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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