The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 34
And when the raven beheld that his enemy was dead, he was grateful, and said:
Who acts: raven, enemy · What happens: behold, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raven, enemy), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 beheld | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 raven | det |
| 4 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beheld | nsubj |
| 5 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | parataxis |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 dead | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dead | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dead | cop |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beheld | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beheld | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grateful | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 grateful | cop |
| 14 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beheld | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | the raven | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | raven's enemy | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | raven | grateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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