The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 82
But when he was halfway up the raven set upon him also.
Who acts: raven · What happens: be, set
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 halfway | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 halfway | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 halfway | cop |
| 5 | halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | 9 set | advmod |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 raven | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 raven | det |
| 8 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 set | obl |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 set | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | raven | halfway property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set | past | up the raven; upon raven | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon he=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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