The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 33
'I am the raven,' said the youth, 'and the spells are broken.
Who acts: I, raven · What happens: be, say, break · To what, where: raven, youth, 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 (I, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 raven | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 raven | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 raven | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 raven | det |
| 5 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 raven | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 raven | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 youth | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 youth | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 broken | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spells | det |
| 15 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 broken | aux:pass |
| 17 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the raven | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the raven | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic | ||||
| 3 | break | present · passive | the spells | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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