The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 46

‘Those are twelve murderers who ate the raven and died of it.’

Who acts: twelve murderers · What happens: be, eat, die · To what, where: twelve murderers, raven

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 (twelve murderers), 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	_	7 ate	punct
2	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 murderers	det
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 murderers	cop
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 murderers	nummod
5	murderers	murderer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ate	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 ate	nsubj
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 raven	det
9	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 died	cc
11	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ate	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 died	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		that twelve murderers		tree rules
2	eat	past	that twelve murderers	the raven		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raven=Patient
3	die	past	that twelve murderers not said here		of raven	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of it=Causer

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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