The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 53

Stumpy black raven, come quick!' cried he; and the raven came, and beat the giant about the head with his wings, so that he could not get up.

Who acts: Stumpy black raven, Ian, raven · What happens: come, cry, beat, not get up · To what, where: giant

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 (Stumpy black raven, Ian, 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	Stumpy	stumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 raven	amod
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 raven	amod
3	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	quick	quick	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	conj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 raven	det
14	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beat	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 beat	cc
18	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 giant	det
20	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 beat	obj
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 head	det
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 giant	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 wings	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wings	nmod:poss
26	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 giant	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 get	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 get	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 get	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 get	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 get	advmod
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 beat	conj
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 get	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive	Stumpy black raven		quick property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	Ian			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the raven			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	beat	past	the raven not said here	the giant		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=Theme
5	not get up	could	Ian			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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