The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 7

At last, one evening, when herself, and himself, and her child were sitting with a window open because it was a sultry night, in flew an eagle, took the infant’s sash in his beak, and flew up in the air with him.

Who acts: child · What happens: sit, be, fly, take, fly up · To what, where: sultry night, eagle, sash, beak, air

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 evening	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 evening	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 evening	nummod
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 herself	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 evening	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 herself	mark
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 himself	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 himself	cc
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 herself	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sitting	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sitting	cc
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 child	nmod:poss
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sitting	aux
17	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 herself	acl:relcl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 window	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 window	det
20	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	obl
21	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sitting	xcomp
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 night	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 night	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 night	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 night	det
26	sultry	sultry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 night	amod
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 flew	punct
29	in	in	SCONJ	_	30 flew	mark
30	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sitting	parataxis
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 eagle	det
32	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flew	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 took	punct
34	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 flew	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 infant	det
36	infant	infant	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sash	nmod:poss
37	’s	's	PART	_	36 infant	case
38	sash	sash	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 took	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 beak	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 beak	nmod:poss
41	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 took	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 flew	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 flew	cc
44	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 took	conj
45	up	up	ADP	_	44 flew	compound:prt
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 air	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 air	det
48	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 flew	obl
49	with	with	ADP	_	50 him	case
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 flew	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 herself	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	princess's child			with a window; open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	child	a sultry night			tree rules
3	fly	past		a eagle			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eagle=Theme
4	take	past		the infant's sash	husband's beak		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sash=Value in beak=Location
5	fly up	past			the air	with husband	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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