The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 114

And he flew before them, as fast as his old wings would carry him, till he reached the eagle of Gwern Abbey, but when they inquired of the eagle whether he knew aught of Mabon he shook his head.

Who acts: eagle, old wings, wings, aught · What happens: fly, carry, reach, inquire, know, shake · To what, where: eagle, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, old wings, wings, aught), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 flew	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fast	punct
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 flew	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 carry	mark
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wings	nmod:poss
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wings	amod
12	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 carry	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 carry	aux
14	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fast	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carry	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 reached	punct
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 reached	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 reached	nsubj
19	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 carry	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 eagle	det
21	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reached	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Gwern	case
23	Gwern	Gwern	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 eagle	nmod
24	Abbey	Abbey	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Gwern	flat
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 knew	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 knew	cc
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 inquired	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 inquired	nsubj
29	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 knew	advcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 eagle	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 eagle	det
32	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 inquired	obl
33	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	35 knew	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 knew	nsubj
35	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
36	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	40 shook	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Mabon	case
38	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 aught	nmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 shook	nsubj
40	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 knew	ccomp
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 head	nmod:poss
42	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shook	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	eagle		before men = man	fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent before they=Location
2	carry	would	eagle's old wings	eagle			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	reach	past	eagle	the eagle of Gwern			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme
4	inquire speech: other	past	wings = wing			of the eagle	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of eagle=Recipient
5	know	past	eagle				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	shake	past	aught	eagle's head			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=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: «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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