The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 2

The lindworm had often watched the eagle flying about the top of the tree, carrying food to his young ones and, accordingly, he watched carefully for the moment when the eaglets began to try their wings and to fly away from the nest.

Who acts: eagle, lindworm, eaglets · What happens: watch, fly, carry, begin, try, fly away · To what, where: lindworm, food, young ones, wings, nest

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, lindworm, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lindworm	det
2	lindworm	lindworm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watched	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 watched	aux
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 watched	advmod
5	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eagle	det
7	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watched	obj
8	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 eagle	acl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 top	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 top	det
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flying	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 top	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 carrying	punct
16	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 flying	conj
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carrying	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 ones	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 ones	nmod:poss
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ones	amod
21	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 carrying	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 accordingly	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	21 ones	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 watched	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 watched	nsubj
27	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 watched	conj
28	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	27 watched	advmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 moment	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 moment	det
31	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 watched	obl
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 began	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 eaglets	det
34	eaglets	eaglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 began	nsubj
35	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 watched	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 try	mark
37	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 began	xcomp
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 wings	nmod:poss
39	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 try	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fly	cc
41	to	to	PART	_	42 fly	mark
42	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 try	conj
43	away	away	ADV	_	42 fly	advmod
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 nest	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 nest	det
46	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fly	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past · perfect · passive		the lindworm				often property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme eagle=Attribute
2	fly	gerund	the eagle not said here					about the top of the tree	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about top=Location
3	carry	gerund	the eagle not said here	food	lindworm's young ones				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme to one=Destination
4	watch	past	lindworm				moment	carefully property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	begin	past	the eaglets						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	try	to-infinitive	the eaglets not said here	eaglets's wings					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Eventuality
7	fly away	to-infinitive	the eaglets not said here			the nest		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from nest=Trajectory

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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