The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 20

‘Who knows whether we shall get anything better to eat to-day!’ said the servant, and he shot the raven and carried it off.

Who acts: we, servant · What happens: know, get, eat, say, shoot, carry off · To what, where: anything, servant, raven · 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 (we, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	7 get	mark
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
6	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knows	ccomp
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 get	obj
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 get	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 eat	mark
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 better	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 day	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 to	punct
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eat	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 servant	det
19	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shot	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 shot	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 shot	nsubj
23	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 raven	det
25	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shot	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 carried	cc
27	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 shot	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 carried	obj
29	off	off	ADP	_	27 carried	compound:prt
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	get	shall	we	anything		good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
3	eat	to-infinitive	we not said here		day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past		the servant			tree rules
5	shoot	past	servant	the raven			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raven=Theme
6	carry off	past	servant not said here	raven			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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