The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 39
This time it was easy for the young man to carry his prize, and after giving thanks to the raven for his aid, he went on to the river.
Who acts: time, raven · What happens: be, carry, give, go on · To what, where: prize, thanks, raven
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 (time, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 easy | nsubj |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 easy | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | cop |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 easy | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 carry | mark |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 man | acl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 prize | nmod:poss |
| 13 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 giving | mark |
| 17 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 went | advcl |
| 18 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 giving | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 raven | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 raven | det |
| 21 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 giving | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 aid | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 aid | nmod:poss |
| 24 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 raven | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 giving | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 river | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 river | det |
| 31 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this time | for the young man; easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | this time not said here | man's prize | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund | raven not said here | thanks | the raven for raven's aid | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to raven=Recipient | |||
| 4 | go on | past | raven | to the river | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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