The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 109

The eaglets naturally were rather surprised at this strange animal, so suddenly popped down in their midst, but instead of beginning to eat her, as their father expected, they nestled up close to her and spread out their tiny wings to shield her from the sun.

Who acts: eaglets, father · What happens: be, pop down, begin, eat, expect, nestle · To what, where: midst, animal, tiny wings, sun.

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eaglets, father), 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 eaglets	det
2	eaglets	eaglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 surprised	nsubj
3	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	2 eaglets	advmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	cop
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 surprised	advmod
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 animal	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 animal	det
9	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 animal	amod
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surprised	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 popped	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 popped	advmod
13	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	14 popped	advmod
14	popped	pop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 surprised	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 popped	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 midst	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 midst	nmod:poss
18	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 popped	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 beginning	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 beginning	cc
21	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 beginning	mark
22	of	of	ADP	_	21 instead	fixed
23	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 surprised	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 eat	mark
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 beginning	xcomp
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 eat	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 expected	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 expected	mark
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 father	nmod:poss
30	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 expected	nsubj
31	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 eat	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 nestled	punct
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 nestled	nsubj
34	nestled	nestle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	parataxis
35	up	up	ADV	_	36 close	advmod
36	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 nestled	xcomp
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 close	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 spread	cc
40	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 nestled	conj
41	out	out	ADP	_	40 spread	compound:prt
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 wings	nmod:poss
43	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 wings	amod
44	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 spread	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 shield	mark
46	shield	shield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 spread	advcl
47	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 shield	obj
48	from	from	ADP	_	50 sun.	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 sun.	det
50	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 shield	obl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the eaglets			at this strange animal; surprised property	tree rules
2	pop down	participle	the eaglets not said here		eaglets's midst	suddenly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location
3	begin	gerund	the eaglets not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	eat	to-infinitive	the eaglets not said here	animal			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	expect	past	eaglets's father				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	nestle	past	eaglets = eaglet			close property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	spread out	past	eaglets = eaglet not said here	eaglets's tiny wings			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
8	shield	to-infinitive	eaglets = eaglet not said here	animal	the sun.		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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