The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 85

Quickly the raven pounced on him, and picked him up in his beak and claws, and carried him back to the castle, where he laid ointments on his foot till it was as well as ever it was.

Who acts: raven, Ian · What happens: pounce, pick up, carry back, lay, be · To what, where: Ian, beak, castle, ointments, foot

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), 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	Quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 pounced	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 raven	det
3	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pounced	nsubj
4	pounced	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pounced	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 picked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 picked	cc
9	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pounced	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 picked	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 picked	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 beak	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 beak	nmod:poss
14	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 picked	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 claws	cc
16	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 beak	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 carried	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 carried	cc
19	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pounced	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 carried	obj
21	back	back	ADV	_	19 carried	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 castle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 castle	det
24	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carried	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 laid	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 laid	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 laid	nsubj
28	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 carried	conj
29	ointments	ointment	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 laid	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 foot	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 foot	nmod:poss
32	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 laid	obl
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	39 ever	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 ever	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 ever	cop
36	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	39 ever	cc
37	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 as	fixed
38	as	as	ADP	_	36 as	fixed
39	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 laid	obl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 was	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 ever	cop
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pounced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pounce	past	the raven			on Ian; quickly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory
2	pick up	past	the raven not said here	Ian	Ian's beak and claws		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	carry back	past		Ian	the castle		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to castle=Destination
4	lay	past	Ian	ointments	Ian's foot		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ointment=Theme on foot=Destination
5	is	past	raven			ever property	tree rules

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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