The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 89
'That was part of my duty,' replied the raven; 'but give it to me, and I will prove a good friend to you.'
Who acts: part, I · What happens: be, reply, give, prove · To what, where: part, raven, me, good friend, you
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 (part, I), 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 | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 part | det |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 part | cop |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 duty | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 duty | nmod:poss |
| 7 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 part | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 raven | det |
| 12 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 give | cc |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 give | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 prove | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 prove | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 prove | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 prove | aux |
| 24 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 give | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 friend | det |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 friend | amod |
| 27 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 prove | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 you | case |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 prove | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that part | of my duty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | that part | the raven | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent raven=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | that part not said here | part | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | prove | future | I | a good friend | you | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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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