The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 122

So they followed the eagle, who flew before them, though so high was he in the sky, it was often hard to mark his flight.

Who acts: birds, eagle, Llyw · What happens: follow, fly, be, mark · To what, where: eagle, high sky, flight

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 (birds, eagle, Llyw), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 followed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 followed	nsubj
3	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eagle	det
5	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 followed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flew	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eagle	acl:relcl
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sky	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 sky	mark
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 high	advmod
14	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sky	amod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sky	cop
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sky	nsubj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 sky	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sky	det
19	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hard	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hard	expl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hard	cop
23	often	often	ADV	_	24 hard	advmod
24	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sky	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 mark	mark
26	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 hard	csubj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 flight	nmod:poss
28	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mark	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	birds = bird	the eagle				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme
2	fly	past	the eagle			before birds = bird		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent before they=Location
3	is	past	Llyw		the high sky			tree rules
4	is	past	Llyw not said here				hard, often property	tree rules
5	mark	to-infinitive		Llyw's flight				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent flight=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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