The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 83

And the raven gave a bob and a hop, and thought he was quite safe, but the door slammed on a feather of his tail, and he screamed loudly.

Who acts: raven, Ian, door · What happens: give, think, be, slam, scream · To what, where: bob, feather · 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 (raven, Ian, door), 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	_	4 gave	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 raven	det
3	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bob	det
6	bob	bob	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hop	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hop	det
9	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bob	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 safe	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 safe	cop
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 safe	advmod
16	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thought	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 slammed	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 slammed	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 slammed	nsubj
21	slammed	slam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gave	advcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 feather	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 feather	det
24	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 slammed	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 tail	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tail	nmod:poss
27	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 feather	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 screamed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 screamed	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 screamed	nsubj
31	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
32	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	31 screamed	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	the raven	a bob and a hop			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bob=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	the raven not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Ian			safe property	tree rules
4	slam	participle	the door		a feather of Ian's tail		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
5	scream speech: express	past	Ian			loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/5/83/