Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 44

Then the eagle flew with him quite as high as the big clouds, and shook him off, and down he fell headlong till he was about two fathoms from the ground, when the bird again flew beneath him and held him up.

Who acts: eagle, man, bird · What happens: fly, shake off, fall, be, hold up · To what, where: man, two fathoms, ground

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, man, bird), 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 flew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	obl
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 high	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 high	advmod
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flew	advcl
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 clouds	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 clouds	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 clouds	amod
13	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 high	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shook	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shook	cc
16	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 shook	obj
18	off	off	ADP	_	16 shook	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fell	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fell	cc
21	down	down	ADV	_	23 fell	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fell	nsubj
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
24	headlong	headlong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fell	xcomp
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 fathoms	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fathoms	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fathoms	cop
28	about	about	ADV	_	29 two	advmod
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 fathoms	nummod
30	fathoms	fathom	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fell	obl:unmarked
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 ground	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ground	det
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fathoms	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 flew	punct
35	when	when	SCONJ	_	39 flew	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bird	det
37	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 flew	nsubj
38	again	again	ADV	_	39 flew	advmod
39	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fathoms	parataxis
40	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 flew	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 held	cc
43	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 flew	conj
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 held	obj
45	up	up	ADP	_	43 held	compound:prt
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the eagle			then	with man	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shake off	past	the eagle not said here	man				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	fall	past	man				down, headlong property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past	man	two fathoms	the ground			tree rules
5	fly	past	the bird			again	beneath man	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent beneath he=Location
6	hold up	past	the bird not said here	man				vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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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