The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 27

'It is the only thanks you can give me,' said the raven, 'for I was a youth like yourself before spells were laid on me.'

Who acts: help, you, I · What happens: be, give, say, lay · To what, where: only thanks, me, raven, spells · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help, you, I), 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	_	6 thanks	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thanks	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thanks	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thanks	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thanks	amod
6	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 give	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thanks	parataxis
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 give	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thanks	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 thanks	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 raven	det
15	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 youth	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 youth	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	22 youth	case
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 youth	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 youth	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 youth	det
22	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 raven	appos
23	like	like	ADP	_	24 yourself	case
24	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 youth	nmod
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 laid	mark
26	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 laid	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 laid	aux:pass
28	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	ccomp
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 laid	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	help	the only thanks			tree rules
2	give	can	you		me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		the raven			tree rules
4	is	past	I			for a youth; like yourself	tree rules
5	lay	past · passive		spells		on me	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on i=Destination

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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