The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 86
'Will you give me a piece of tobacco?' asked the raven, who was now quite quiet.
Who acts: you, raven · What happens: give, ask, be · To what, where: piece, me, 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, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 piece | det |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tobacco | case |
| 9 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 raven | det |
| 14 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 quiet | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 quiet | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 quiet | cop |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 quiet | advmod |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 quiet | advmod |
| 20 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 raven | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | you | a piece of tobacco | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient piece=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the raven | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent raven=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the raven | now | quiet property | 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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