The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 31

‘Well,’ answered the first raven, ‘my eyes are in no want of this healing bath, for, Heaven be praised, they are as good as ever they were; but my wing has been very feeble and weak ever since it was shot by an arrow many years ago, so let us fly at once to the lake that I may be restored to health and strength again.’

Who acts: eyes, arrow, us · What happens: answer, be, praise, shoot, let, fly · To what, where: first raven, want, Heaven, wing, us, lake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, arrow, us), 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 answered	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 raven	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 raven	amod
8	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 want	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 want	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 want	case
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 want	det
16	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 raven	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 bath	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 bath	det
19	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bath	compound
20	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 want	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 praised	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 praised	mark
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 for	punct
24	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 praised	nsubj:pass
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 praised	aux:pass
26	praised	praise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 answered	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 good	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 good	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 good	cop
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 good	advmod
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 praised	parataxis
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 ever	case
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 feeble	obl
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 feeble	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 feeble	cop
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 feeble	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 feeble	cc
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 wing	nmod:poss
39	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 feeble	nsubj
40	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 feeble	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 feeble	cop
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 feeble	advmod
43	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 good	conj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 weak	cc
45	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 feeble	conj
46	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	50 shot	advmod
47	since	since	SCONJ	_	50 shot	mark
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 shot	nsubj:pass
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 shot	aux:pass
50	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 weak	advcl
51	by	by	ADP	_	53 arrow	case
52	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 arrow	det
53	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 shot	obl
54	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 years	amod
55	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 ago	obl:unmarked
56	ago	ago	ADV	_	53 arrow	advmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 let	punct
58	so	so	ADV	_	59 let	advmod
59	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	43 feeble	parataxis
60	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 let	obj
61	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 let	xcomp
62	at	at	ADP	_	63 once	case
63	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	61 fly	obl
64	to	to	ADP	_	66 lake	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 lake	det
66	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 fly	obl
67	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	71 restored	nsubj:pass
68	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	71 restored	nsubj
69	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	71 restored	aux
70	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	71 restored	aux:pass
71	restored	restore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	66 lake	acl:relcl
72	to	to	ADP	_	73 health	case
73	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 restored	obl
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 strength	cc
75	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 health	conj
76	again	again	ADV	_	73 health	advmod
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
78	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past		the first raven					tree rules
2	is	present	my eyes			no want		of this healing bath	tree rules
3	praise	infinitive · passive		Heaven					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	present	eyes = eye					good property	tree rules
5	is	past · perfect	eyes = eye					feeble property	tree rules
6	be		eyes = eye not said here						tree rules
7	shoot	past · passive	a arrow	wing			ever		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
8	let	infinitive		us					tree rules
9	fly	infinitive	us not said here					to the lake	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
10	restore	may · passive		the lake	health and strength				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to health=Recipient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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