The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 19
When he got to the spot he saw that a raven had perched on the carcase and was pecking at it.
Who acts: servant · What happens: get, see, perch, peck · To what, where: raven, carcase · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 spot | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spot | det |
| 6 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 perched | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 raven | det |
| 11 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 perched | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 perched | aux |
| 13 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 carcase | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 carcase | det |
| 16 | carcase | carcase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 perched | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pecking | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pecking | aux |
| 19 | pecking | peck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 perched | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pecking | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | servant | to the spot result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to spot=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | past | servant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | perch | past · perfect · passive | a raven | the carcase | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on carcase=Destination | ||||
| 4 | peck | past · progressive | at raven | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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