The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 3

Of course, if the eagle himself was there to protect them even the lindworm, big and strong as he was, knew that he could do nothing; but when he was absent, any little eaglets who ventured too near the ground would be sure to disappear down the monster’s throat.

Who acts: eagle, little eaglets · What happens: be, protect, do, venture, disappear down · To what, where: wings, nothing, ground, throat · 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 (eagle, little 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	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	9 there	advmod
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Of	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 there	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eagle	det
6	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 there	nsubj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	6 eagle	nmod:unmarked
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 there	cop
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 sure	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 protect	mark
11	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 there	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 protect	obj
13	even	even	ADV	_	15 lindworm	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lindworm	det
15	lindworm	lindworm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 protect	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 big	punct
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lindworm	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 strong	cc
19	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 big	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 knew	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knew	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 knew	cop
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knew	punct
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 big	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 do	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 knew	ccomp
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 do	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 absent	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 absent	cc
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 absent	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 absent	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 absent	cop
35	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 there	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 there	punct
37	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 eaglets	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 eaglets	amod
39	eaglets	eaglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 sure	nsubj
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 ventured	nsubj
41	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 eaglets	acl:relcl
42	too	too	ADV	_	41 ventured	advmod
43	near	near	ADP	_	45 ground	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 ground	det
45	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ventured	obl
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 sure	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 sure	cop
48	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
49	to	to	PART	_	50 disappear	mark
50	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 sure	xcomp
51	down	down	ADP	_	50 disappear	compound:prt
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 monster	det
53	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 throat	nmod:poss
54	’s	's	PART	_	53 monster	case
55	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 disappear	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the eagle eagle			there property	tree rules
2	protect	to-infinitive	the eagle eagle not said here	wings = wing			tree rules
3	is	past	eagle			know property	tree rules
4	do	could	eagle	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
5	is	past	eagle			absent property	tree rules
6	venture	past	any little eaglets		the ground		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
7	is	would	any little eaglets			sure property	tree rules
8	disappear down	to-infinitive	any little eaglets not said here	the monster's throat			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 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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