The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 13

But the eaglets answered that they could not tell, only that they had been in danger of their lives, and at the last moment they had been delivered.

Who acts: eaglets · What happens: answer, not tell, be, deliver · To what, where: danger, eaglets · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eaglets), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eaglets	det
3	eaglets	eaglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 tell	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 tell	advmod
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 danger	punct
11	only	only	ADV	_	17 danger	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 danger	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 danger	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 danger	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 danger	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 danger	case
17	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 lives	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lives	nmod:poss
20	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 danger	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 delivered	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 delivered	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 moment	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 moment	det
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 moment	amod
26	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 delivered	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 delivered	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 delivered	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 delivered	aux:pass
30	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 tell	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the eaglets					tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert	could	eaglets = eaglet					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past · perfect	eaglets = eaglet		danger		of eaglets's lives	tree rules
4	deliver	past · perfect · passive		eaglets = eaglet		moment		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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