The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 30
The raven promised faithfully to do her bidding, and, spreading its wings, flew away.
Who acts: raven, thread · What happens: promise, do, spread, fly away, bid · To what, where: bidding, wings
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raven, thread), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 raven | det |
| 2 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 3 promised | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promised | xcomp |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spreading | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 spreading | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spreading | punct |
| 12 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 promised | advcl |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wings | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spreading | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flew | punct |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | parataxis |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 flew | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the raven | faithfully property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the raven not said here | thread's bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | spread | gerund | the raven not said here | bidding's wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fly away | past | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bid | thread | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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