The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 76

Further along the road which led to his old home the prince found the great tree torn up by its roots, and the king of the eagles sitting dead on the ground, with his wings outspread as if for flight.

Who acts: prince, king · What happens: lead, find, tear up, sit · To what, where: great tree, ground

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, king), 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	Further	further	ADV	_	6 led	advmod
2	along	along	ADP	_	4 road	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Further	obl
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 led	nsubj
6	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 home	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 home	nmod:poss
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 home	amod
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 led	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prince	det
12	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 led	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tree	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tree	amod
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obj
17	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 tree	acl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 torn	compound:prt
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 roots	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 roots	nmod:poss
21	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 torn	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sitting	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sitting	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sitting	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 eagles	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 eagles	det
28	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 king	nmod
29	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 found	advcl
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sitting	xcomp
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 ground	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ground	det
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sitting	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 wings	punct
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 wings	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 wings	nmod:poss
37	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sitting	obl
38	outspread	outspread	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 wings	amod
39	as	as	ADP	_	38 outspread	fixed
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 as	fixed
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 flight	case
42	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 outspread	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past				to king's old home; further property	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to home=Patient
2	find	past	the prince	the great tree			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic
3	tear up	participle		the great tree not said here		by tree's roots	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by root=Trajectory
4	sit	gerund	the king of the eagles		the ground	with king's wings; dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location

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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