Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 21

The three seated themselves on a stone, to await in stillness the dawn of day, when the parent eagle would fly out, as it would be necessary to shoot the old bird before they could think of gaining possession of the young one.

Who acts: three, parent eagle, Waters · What happens: seat, await, fly out, be, shoot, think · To what, where: Waters, stone, stillness, old bird, possession, young one

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three, parent eagle, Waters), 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 three	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 seated	nsubj
3	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 seated	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 stone	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seated	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 await	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 await	mark
10	await	await	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 seated	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 stillness	case
12	stillness	stillness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 await	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dawn	det
14	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 await	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 day	case
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dawn	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fly	punct
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 fly	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 eagle	det
20	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eagle	compound
21	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fly	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 fly	aux
23	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 await	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 fly	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 necessary	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 necessary	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 necessary	expl
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 necessary	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 necessary	cop
30	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fly	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 shoot	mark
32	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 necessary	csubj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bird	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bird	amod
35	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shoot	obj
36	before	before	SCONJ	_	39 think	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 think	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 think	aux
39	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 shoot	advcl
40	of	of	SCONJ	_	41 gaining	mark
41	gaining	gain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 think	advcl
42	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 gaining	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 one	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 one	det
45	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 one	amod
46	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 possession	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seat	past	the three	Waters = water	a stone			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Value
2	await	to-infinitive			stillness	dawn		tree rules
3	fly out	would	the parent eagle					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	would	the parent eagle not said here				necessary property	tree rules
5	shoot	to-infinitive		the old bird				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
6	think speech: other	could	Waters = water					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	gain	gerund	Waters = water not said here	possession of the young one				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
8	possess			the young one				nom possession «act transitive»: of=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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