--- title: ‘Well,’ answered the first raven, ‘my eyes are in no want of this he… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Well,’ answered the first raven, ‘my eyes are in no want of this healing bath, for, Heaven be praised, they are as good as ever they were; but my wing has been very feeble and weak ever since it was shot by an arrow many years ago, so let us fly at once to the lake that I may be restored to health --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/31/) [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 Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/) / 31 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 31 ‘Well,’ answered the first raven, ‘my eyes are in no want of this healing bath, for, Heaven be praised, they are as good as ever they were; but my wing has been very feeble and weak ever since it was shot by an arrow many years ago, so let us fly at once to the lake that I may be restored to health and strength again.’ **Who acts:** eyes, arrow, us · **What happens:** answer, be, praise, shoot, let, fly · **To what, where:** first raven, want, Heaven, wing, us, lake · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, arrow, us), 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:pg640:14:31 # text = ‘Well,’ answered the first raven, ‘my eyes are in no want of this healing bath, for, Heaven be praised, they are as good as ever they were; but my wing has been very feeble and weak ever since it was shot by an arrow many years ago, so let us fly at once to the lake that I may be restored to health and strength again.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 5 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 8 raven raven NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 16 det _ _ 16 want want NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 19 healing healing NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 for for SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 Heaven Heaven PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 praised praise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 as as ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 parataxis _ _ 32 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 43 obl _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 35 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 40 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 41 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 43 cop _ _ 42 very very ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 feeble feeble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 conj _ _ 46 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 50 advmod _ _ 47 since since SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj:pass _ _ 49 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux:pass _ _ 50 shot shoot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 advcl _ _ 51 by by ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 54 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 obl:unmarked _ _ 56 ago ago ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 58 so so ADV RB _ 59 advmod _ _ 59 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 43 parataxis _ _ 60 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 59 obj _ _ 61 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 59 xcomp _ _ 62 at at ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 63 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 61 obl _ _ 64 to to ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obl _ _ 67 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 71 nsubj:pass _ _ 68 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 71 nsubj _ _ 69 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 71 aux _ _ 70 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 71 aux:pass _ _ 71 restored restore VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 66 acl:relcl _ _ 72 to to ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 73 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 obl _ _ 74 and and CCONJ CC _ 75 cc _ _ 75 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 conj _ _ 76 again again ADV RB _ 73 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 77 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 78 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | | the first raven | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | my eyes | | | no want | | of this healing bath | tree rules | | 3 | **praise** | infinitive · passive | | Heaven | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | eyes *= eye* | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past · perfect | eyes *= eye* | | | | | feeble *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **shoot** | past · passive | a arrow | wing | | | ever | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 8 | **let** | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **fly** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | to the lake | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location | | 10 | **restore** | may · passive | | the lake | health and strength | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to health=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/32/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/)