The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 70

He had been travelling for many days, and had left his fatherland behind him, when close to the road he came upon a huge tree, and on its topmost bough an eagle was sitting shaking the branches with all his might.

Who acts: king, eagle · What happens: travel, leave, come, sit, shake · To what, where: fatherland, road, topmost bough, branches

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, eagle), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 travelling	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 travelling	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 travelling	aux
4	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 days	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 travelling	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 left	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 left	cc
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 left	aux
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 travelling	parataxis
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fatherland	nmod:poss
13	fatherland	fatherland	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obj
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 close	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 close	advmod
18	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 left	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 road	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 road	det
21	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 close	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 road	acl:relcl
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 tree	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tree	det
26	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tree	amod
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sitting	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sitting	cc
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 bough	case
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 bough	nmod:poss
32	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bough	amod
33	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sitting	obl
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 eagle	det
35	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sitting	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sitting	aux
37	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 travelling	conj
38	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 sitting	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 branches	det
40	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 shaking	obj
41	with	with	SCONJ	_	44 might	mark
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 might	det:predet
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 might	nmod:poss
44	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 shaking	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 travelling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past · perfect · progressive	king			day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	past · perfect		king's fatherland			behind king	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fatherland=Theme behind he=Location
3	come	past	king	the road not said here			upon a huge tree	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme
4	sit	past · progressive	a eagle		tree's topmost bough			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bough=Location
5	shake	gerund	a eagle not said here	the branches				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent branch=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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