The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 98
'You did not obey my counsel,' said the raven, hopping towards him, 'and so trouble has come upon you.
Who acts: You, trouble · What happens: not obey, say, hop, come · To what, where: counsel, raven · 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, trouble), 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 | _ | 5 obey | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 obey | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 obey | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 obey | advmod |
| 5 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 7 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obey | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 obey | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 obey | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 raven | det |
| 12 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hopping | punct |
| 14 | hopping | hop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hopping | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ' | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 hopping | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 come | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 21 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | conj |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 come | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not obey | past · do-support | You | my counsel | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the raven | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hop | gerund | towards counsel | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination | |||||
| 4 | come | present · perfect | trouble | upon you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon you=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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