The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 38
And the raven flew with his strong wings and picked him up in his strong beak, and in another moment the bird was laid at the feet of Covan.
Who acts: raven · What happens: fly, pick up, lay · To what, where: raven, strong beak, bird, feet
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 flew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 raven | det |
| 3 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 wings | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wings | amod |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flew | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 picked | cc |
| 10 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 picked | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 picked | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 beak | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 beak | nmod:poss |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beak | amod |
| 16 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 picked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 laid | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 laid | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 moment | case |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 moment | det |
| 21 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 laid | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bird | det |
| 23 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 laid | aux:pass |
| 25 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 flew | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 feet | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 feet | det |
| 28 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 laid | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Covan | case |
| 30 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 feet | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the raven | with raven's strong wings | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pick up | past | the raven not said here | raven | raven's strong beak | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 3 | lay | past · passive | the bird | the feet of Covan | moment | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at foot=Destination |
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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