The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 23

The keeper of the birds drew the string at the top of the bag, and left it to finish his supper, when in flew an eagle through the open door, and picked the bag up in her claws and carried it through the air to an island.

Who acts: keeper · What happens: draw, leave, finish, fly, pick up, carry · To what, where: string, top, bag, supper, eagle, open door

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (keeper), 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 keeper	det
2	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drew	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 birds	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birds	det
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keeper	nmod
6	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 string	det
8	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drew	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 top	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 top	det
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drew	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 bag	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bag	det
14	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 top	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 left	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 left	cc
17	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drew	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 left	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 finish	mark
20	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 left	advcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 supper	nmod:poss
22	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 finish	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flew	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 flew	advmod
25	in	in	SCONJ	_	26 flew	mark
26	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 left	conj
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 eagle	det
28	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flew	obj
29	through	through	ADP	_	32 door	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 door	det
31	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 door	amod
32	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flew	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 picked	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 picked	cc
35	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drew	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bag	det
37	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 picked	obj
38	up	up	ADP	_	35 picked	compound:prt
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 claws	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 claws	nmod:poss
41	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 picked	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 carried	cc
43	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 picked	conj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 carried	obj
45	through	through	ADP	_	47 air	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 air	det
47	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 carried	obl
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 island	case
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 island	det
50	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 carried	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the keeper of the birds	the string	the top of the bag		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme
2	leave	past	the keeper of the birds not said here	bag			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	finish	to-infinitive	the keeper of the birds not said here	keeper's supper			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality supper=Eventuality
4	fly	past	the keeper of the birds not said here	a eagle	the open door		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme through door=Location
5	pick up	past	the keeper of the birds not said here	the bag	eagle's claws		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Topic
6	carry	past	the keeper of the birds not said here	bag	the air	to a island	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to island=Destination

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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