The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 156

But a raven unexpectedly gave him this advice: ‘Ride upon the horse, and push the spear against the ground, as if you were pushing off a boat from the land.’

Who acts: raven, you · What happens: give, ride, push, push off · To what, where: advice, wisdom, spear, ground, boat, land

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raven, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 gave	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 raven	det
3	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
4	unexpectedly	unexpectedly	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 advice	det
8	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Ride	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 Ride	punct
11	Ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gave	advcl
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 horse	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Ride	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 push	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 push	cc
17	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Ride	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 spear	det
19	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 push	obj
20	against	against	ADP	_	22 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 push	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pushing	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 pushing	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 pushing	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 pushing	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 pushing	aux
28	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 push	advcl
29	off	off	ADP	_	28 pushing	compound:prt
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 boat	det
31	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pushing	obj
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 land	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 land	det
34	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pushing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 Ride	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 Ride	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	a raven	this advice	wisdom		unexpectedly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient advice=Theme
2	ride	infinitive	a raven not said here				upon the horse	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	push	infinitive	a raven not said here	the spear		the ground		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent spear=Theme against ground=Trajectory
4	push off	past · progressive	you	a boat		the land		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent boat=Theme from land=Trajectory

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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