The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 56
'Rest now this night also,' said the raven, 'and to-morrow you shall take the knight's three daughters to the edge of the rock that leads to the lower world.
Who acts: you, rock · What happens: rest, say, take, lead · To what, where: raven, three daughters, morrow · 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 (you, rock), 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 Rest | punct |
| 2 | Rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Rest | advmod |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rest | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 Rest | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rest | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rest | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 raven | det |
| 11 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 take | cc |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 morrow | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 to | punct |
| 17 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 take | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 knight | det |
| 22 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 knight | case |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 daughters | nummod |
| 25 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 take | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 edge | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 edge | det |
| 28 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 rock | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 rock | det |
| 31 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 edge | nmod |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 leads | nsubj |
| 33 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 rock | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 world | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 world | det |
| 36 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 world | amod |
| 37 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 leads | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | infinitive | now; night | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the raven | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | shall | you | the knight's three daughters | morrow | to the edge of the rock | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to morrow=Destination | ||
| 4 | lead | present | the rock | to the lower world | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to world=Patient |
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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