The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 91

The raven hid it under his wing, and then went on; 'Now I will take you to the house of the big giant, where the knight's daughter sits sewing, sewing, till even her thimble is wet with tears.'

Who acts: raven, I, daughter, thimble · What happens: hide, go on, take, sit, sew, be · To what, where: piece, wing, you, house

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, I, daughter, thimble), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 raven	det
2	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	nsubj
3	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hid	obj
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 wing	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wing	nmod:poss
7	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 went	advmod
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hid	parataxis
12	on	on	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
15	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 take	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 take	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 take	aux
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hid	parataxis
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 take	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 house	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 house	det
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 giant	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 giant	det
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 giant	amod
26	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 house	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sits	punct
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 sits	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 knight	det
30	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 daughter	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 knight	case
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sits	nsubj
33	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 take	parataxis
34	sewing	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 sits	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sewing	punct
36	sewing	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 sewing	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 wet	punct
38	till	till	SCONJ	_	43 wet	mark
39	even	even	ADV	_	43 wet	advmod
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 thimble	nmod:poss
41	thimble	thimble	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 wet	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 wet	cop
43	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sits	conj
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 tears	case
45	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 wet	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
47	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the raven	piece	raven's wing			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under wing=Location
2	go on	past				then		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	future	I	you	the house of the big giant	now		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to house=Destination
4	sit	present	the knight's daughter					tree rules
5	sew	gerund	the knight's daughter not said here					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	sew	gerund	the knight's daughter not said here					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	is	present	Christmastide's thimble				with tears; wet 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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