The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 118
'Put your hand under my right wing and you will find a knife sharp enough to take off his head,' said the raven.
Who acts: you · What happens: put, find, take off, say · To what, where: hand, right wing, knife, head, raven · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 Put | punct |
| 2 | Put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 said | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Put | obj |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 wing | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wing | nmod:poss |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wing | amod |
| 8 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Put | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 find | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Put | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 knife | det |
| 14 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 15 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 find | xcomp |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 15 sharp | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sharp | advcl |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 take | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 raven | det |
| 26 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | infinitive | your hand | my right wing | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme under wing=Destination | ||||
| 2 | find | future | you | a knife | sharp property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Topic | |||
| 3 | take off | to-infinitive | you not said here | raven's head | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the raven | tree rules |
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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