The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 32

The road next led through a wood, where he saw a father and a mother raven standing by their nest and throwing out their young: ‘Away with you, you young rascals!’ they cried, ‘we can’t feed you any longer.

Who acts: King, mother raven, you, father, we · What happens: lead, see, stand, throw out, rascal, cry · To what, where: road, wood, father, young, you

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, mother raven, you, father), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	nsubj:pass
3	next	next	ADV	_	4 led	advmod
4	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 saw	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wood	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 father	det
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 raven	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 raven	det
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 raven	compound
17	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 father	conj
18	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 raven	acl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 nest	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 nest	nmod:poss
21	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 standing	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 throwing	cc
23	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 standing	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 throwing	compound:prt
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 young	nmod:poss
26	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 throwing	obj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 Away	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 Away	punct
29	Away	away	ADV	_	4 led	advmod
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 Away	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 rascals	punct
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 rascals	nsubj
34	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 rascals	amod
35	rascals	rascal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 led	obl
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 led	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 led	punct
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 cried	nsubj
39	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 led	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 feed	punct
41	‘	'	PUNCT	_	45 feed	punct
42	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 feed	nsubj
43	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 feed	aux
44	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 feed	advmod
45	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 cried	conj
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 feed	iobj
47	any	any	ADV	_	48 longer	advmod
48	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	45 feed	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	participle · passive		the road		a wood	away, next property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme through wood=Destination
2	see	past	King	a father and a mother raven				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus
3	stand	gerund	a mother raven not said here				by father's nest	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by nest=Location
4	throw out	gerund	a mother raven not said here	father's young				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Theme
5	rascal		you					tree rules
6	cry speech: express	past	father					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not feed	can	we		you		long property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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