The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 59

At the same moment three ravens flew down to him, perched on his knee and said, ‘We are the three young ravens whom you saved from starvation.

Who acts: three ravens, We, you · What happens: fly down, perch, say, be, save · To what, where: tree, knee, three young ravens, starvation · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (three ravens, We, you), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moment	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moment	amod
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	obl
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 ravens	nummod
6	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flew	nsubj
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 flew	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 perched	punct
12	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 flew	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 knee	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 knee	nmod:poss
15	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perched	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flew	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ravens	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 ravens	punct
20	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 ravens	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 ravens	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ravens	det
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 ravens	nummod
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ravens	amod
25	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 said	ccomp
26	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 saved	obj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 saved	nsubj
28	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 ravens	acl:relcl
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 starvation	case
30	starvation	starvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 saved	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly down	past	three ravens		tree		moment	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
2	perch	participle	three ravens not said here			tree's knee			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on knee=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	three ravens not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	We	the three young ravens					tree rules
5	save	past	you	the three young ravens		starvation			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent whom=Theme from starvation=Source

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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