Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 39

Then the eagle bore him nearly as high as the big clouds, and then let him fall.

Who acts: eagle, archer · What happens: bear, let, fall · To what, where: archer

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, archer), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 bore	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bore	nsubj
4	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bore	obj
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	8 high	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 high	advmod
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bore	advcl
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 clouds	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 clouds	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 clouds	amod
12	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 high	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 let	advmod
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 bore	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	bear	past	the eagle	archer	then	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	let	infinitive		archer	then	tree rules
3	fall	infinitive	archer not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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