The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 52

You gave food to the raven when it hungered, you were true to the promise you had made to me, and did not suffer yourself to be turned aside by vain shows.

Who acts: You, food, vain shows · What happens: give, hunger, be, make, not suffer, turn · To what, where: food, raven, promise, me, yourself

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 (You, food, vain shows), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 raven	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 raven	det
6	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 hungered	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hungered	nsubj
9	hungered	hunger	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 true	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 true	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 true	cop
13	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hungered	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 promise	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 promise	det
16	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 true	obl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 made	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 made	aux
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 promise	acl:relcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 made	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 suffer	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 suffer	cc
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 suffer	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 suffer	advmod
26	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	conj
27	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 suffer	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	30 turned	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 turned	aux:pass
30	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 suffer	advcl
31	aside	aside	ADV	_	30 turned	advmod
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 shows	case
33	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 shows	amod
34	shows	show	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 turned	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	You	food	the raven		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to raven=Recipient
2	hunger	past	food				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	you			to the promise; true property	tree rules
4	make	past · perfect	you	the promise not said here	me		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product
5	not suffer	past · do-support	You not said here	yourself			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus
6	turn	to-infinitive · passive	vain shows			aside property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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