The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 120
'Stay with me for company,' begged Ian; but the raven shook his head, and flew away.
Who acts: you, raven · What happens: stay, beg, shake, fly away · To what, where: Ian, head
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. 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 | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 2 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Stay | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 company | case |
| 6 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Stay | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 begged | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 begged | punct |
| 9 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Stay | advcl |
| 10 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 begged | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 shook | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 shook | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 raven | det |
| 14 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shook | nsubj |
| 15 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stay | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shook | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flew | cc |
| 20 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shook | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 flew | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | with me; for company | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | participle | you not said here | Ian | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent ian=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | shake | past | the raven | Ian's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fly away | past | the raven not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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