The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 8

She asked him whence he had come, and he answered as the raven had told him, that he came from behind.

Who acts: woman, Ian · What happens: ask, come, answer, tell · To what, where: Ian, raven · 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 (woman, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	iobj
4	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	7 come	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 asked	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 answered	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 answered	nsubj
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 told	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 raven	det
14	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	aux
16	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 answered	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	conj
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 behind	case
23	behind	behind	ADV	_	21 came	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	woman		Ian		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	come	past · perfect	Ian			whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	Ian				tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the raven	Ian		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
5	come	past	Ian				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from behind=Initial_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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