The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 62
And picking up the tobacco in his beak, the raven flew away.
Who acts: raven · What happens: pick up, fly away · To what, where: tobacco, beak
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 picking | cc |
| 2 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 flew | advcl |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 picking | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tobacco | det |
| 5 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 picking | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 beak | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beak | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tobacco | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 picking | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 raven | det |
| 11 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 flew | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | gerund | the raven not said here | the tobacco | rock's beak | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tobacco=Topic | |||
| 2 | fly away | past | the raven | 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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