The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 33
'Oh that the black raven were here to help me!' he thought to himself.
Who acts: black raven, duck · What happens: be, help, think · To what, where: me, duck
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. 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, duck), 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 | _ | 8 here | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 here | discourse |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 here | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 raven | det |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 raven | amod |
| 6 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 here | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 here | cop |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 thought | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 help | mark |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 here | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 help | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 here | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 here | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 himself | case |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 thought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the black raven | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | the black raven not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | duck | duck | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/31/33/