The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 69

At last he began to understand what had happened to him, and while he was taking counsel with himself what had best be done, the raven came to him.

Who acts: accident, raven · What happens: begin, understand, happen, take, do, come · To what, where: last, accident, counsel · 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 (accident, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 began	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 understand	mark
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 happened	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 happened	aux
9	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 understand	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 happened	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taking	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 taking	cc
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 taking	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 taking	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 taking	aux
17	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 began	advcl
18	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taking	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 taking	obl
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 done	obj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 done	aux
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 done	advmod
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 done	aux:pass
25	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 taking	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 raven	det
28	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	accident			last		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	understand	to-infinitive	accident not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	happen	past · perfect			accident			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	past · progressive	accident	counsel			with accident	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme clause=Attribute
5	do	past · passive	accident not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality
6	come	past	the raven		accident			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location

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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