--- title: The raven hid it under his wing, and then went on; 'Now I will take… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The raven hid it under his wing, and then went on; 'Now I will take you to the house of the big giant, where the knight's daughter sits sewing, sewing, till even her thimble is wet with tears.' Who acts: raven, I, daughter, thimble. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/91/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/) / 91 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 91 The raven hid it under his wing, and then went on; 'Now I will take you to the house of the big giant, where the knight's daughter sits sewing, sewing, till even her thimble is wet with tears.' **Who acts:** raven, I, daughter, thimble · **What happens:** hide, go on, take, sit, sew, be · **To what, where:** piece, wing, you, house This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raven, I, daughter, thimble), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:4:91 # text = The raven hid it under his wing, and then went on; 'Now I will take you to the house of the big giant, where the knight's daughter sits sewing, sewing, till even her thimble is wet with tears.' 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 raven raven NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 under under ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 on on ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 34 sewing sew VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 sewing sew VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 till till SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 39 even even ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 thimble thimble NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | past | the raven | piece | | raven's wing | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under wing=Location | | 2 | **go on** | past | | | | | then | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **take** | future | I | you | | the house of the big giant | now | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to house=Destination | | 4 | **sit** | present | the knight's daughter | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sew** | gerund | the knight's daughter *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **sew** | gerund | the knight's daughter *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **is** | present | Christmastide's thimble | | | | | with tears; wet *property* | tree rules | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/92/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/)