The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 18

Then he called to the raven, and the raven came flapping towards him, and said: 'Put your hand under my right wing, and you will find there a knife sharp enough to take off his head.'

Who acts: giant, raven, you · What happens: call, come, flap, say, put, find · To what, where: raven, hand, right wing, knife, head · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (giant, raven, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 called	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 raven	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 raven	det
6	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 raven	det
10	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
12	flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 came	advcl
13	towards	towards	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 flapping	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 Put	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 Put	punct
20	Put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hand	nmod:poss
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Put	obj
23	under	under	ADP	_	26 wing	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wing	nmod:poss
25	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wing	amod
26	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Put	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 find	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 find	cc
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 find	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 find	aux
31	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 Put	conj
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 find	expl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 knife	det
34	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 find	obj
35	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 find	xcomp
36	enough	enough	ADV	_	35 sharp	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 take	mark
38	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 sharp	advcl
39	off	off	ADP	_	38 take	compound:prt
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 head	nmod:poss
41	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 take	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 Put	punct
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 Put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	giant		the raven		then		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to raven=Recipient
2	come	past	the raven						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	flap	gerund	the raven not said here					towards giant	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards he=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	giant not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	put	infinitive		your hand		my right wing			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme under wing=Destination
6	find	future	you	a knife		there		sharp property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Topic
7	take off	to-infinitive	you not said here	giant's head					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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