The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 44

Then she asked: ‘One slew none--what is that?’ and he answered: ‘A raven which fed on the carcase of a poisoned horse.’

Who acts: Princess, that, son, raven · What happens: ask, be, answer, feed, poison

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 (Princess, that, son, raven), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 asked	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 none	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 none	punct
6	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 none	nummod
7	slew	slew	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 none	compound
8	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	3 asked	ccomp
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 none	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 what	cop
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 what	nsubj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 none	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 answered	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 answered	nsubj
17	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 raven	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 raven	punct
20	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 raven	det
21	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	parataxis
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 fed	nsubj
23	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 raven	acl:relcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 carcase	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 carcase	det
26	carcase	carcase	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fed	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 horse	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 horse	det
29	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 horse	amod
30	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carcase	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 raven	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 raven	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Princess	then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	that			tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past	son			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	feed	past	a raven		on the carcase of a poisoned horse	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on carcase=Patient
5	poison	participle				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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 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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