The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 80

After that the second brother got into the creel; but he fared no better, for the raven flew upon him, and he returned as his brother had done.

Who acts: second brother, raven, brother · What happens: get, fare, fly, return, do · To what, where: creel

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 (second brother, raven, brother), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 got	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brother	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 brother	amod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 creel	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 creel	det
9	creel	creel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 fared	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 fared	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fared	nsubj
13	fared	fare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	conj
14	no	no	ADV	_	15 better	advmod
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 fared	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flew	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 flew	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 raven	det
19	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flew	nsubj
20	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fared	conj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 flew	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 returned	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 returned	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 returned	nsubj
26	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	conj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 done	mark
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 brother	nmod:poss
29	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 done	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 done	aux
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 returned	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the second brother	the creel	after that		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into creel=Destination
2	fare	past	raven			good property	tree rules
3	fly	past	the raven			upon overlooker	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
4	return	past	raven				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do	past · perfect	raven's brother				vn act-114-1 «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.

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