The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 18

The eagle flew about the wood and collected the softest, greenest moss he could find to make her a bed, and then he picked with his beak all the brightest and prettiest flowers in the fields or on the mountains to decorate it.

Who acts: eagle, greenest moss · What happens: fly, collect, find, make, pick, decorate · To what, where: softest, bed, moss, brightest flowers, fields

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 (eagle, greenest moss), 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 eagle	det
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 collected	cc
8	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 softest	det
10	softest	soft	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 collected	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 find	punct
12	greenest	green	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 moss	amod
13	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 find	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 find	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 find	aux
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 collected	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 find	xcomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 make	obj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bed	det
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 picked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 picked	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 picked	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 picked	nsubj
26	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 beak	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 beak	nmod:poss
29	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 picked	obl
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 flowers	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 flowers	det
32	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 flowers	amod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 prettiest	cc
34	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 brightest	conj
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 picked	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 fields	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 fields	det
38	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 picked	obl
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 mountains	cc
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 mountains	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 mountains	det
42	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 fields	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 decorate	mark
44	decorate	decorate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 picked	advcl
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 decorate	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the eagle					about the wood	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent about wood=Location
2	collect	past	the eagle not said here	the softest					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soft=Theme
3	find	could	greenest moss						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	make	to-infinitive	greenest moss not said here	a bed	moss				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary bed=Product
5	pick	past	eagle	all brightest flowers		the fields or the mountains	then	with eagle's beak	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
6	decorate	to-infinitive	eagle not said here	bed					vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination

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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