The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 33

'Nought save this,' he answered, handing her the feather of the blue falcon, which she held by the tip and gazed at silently.

Who acts: Nought, Falcon, blue falcon · What happens: save, answer, hand, hold, gaze · To what, where: this, feather, stepmother

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nought, Falcon, blue falcon), 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	_	3 save	punct
2	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	3 save	nsubj
3	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 save	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 answered	nsubj
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 save	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 handing	punct
10	handing	hand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 answered	advcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 handing	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 feather	det
13	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 handing	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 falcon	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 falcon	det
16	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 falcon	amod
17	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feather	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 held	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 held	nsubj
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 held	nsubj
21	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 falcon	parataxis
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 tip	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tip	det
24	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 held	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gazed	cc
26	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 held	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 silently	case
28	silently	silently	ADV	_	26 gazed	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	save	infinitive	Nought	this			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	Falcon				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hand	gerund	Falcon not said here	the feather of the blue falcon	stepmother		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination feather=Theme
4	hold	past	the blue falcon			by the tip	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by tip=Location
5	gaze	past	the blue falcon not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at silently=Theme

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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