The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 97

Shortly after, he was sitting in the garden, thinking that the swallows must have forgotten his message, when he saw an eagle flying above him.

Who acts: prince, swallows, eagle · What happens: sit, think, forget, see, fly · To what, where: garden, message, eagle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, swallows, eagle), 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	Shortly	shortly	ADV	_	6 sitting	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 sitting	mark
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 after	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sitting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garden	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thinking	punct
11	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sitting	advcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 forgotten	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 swallows	det
14	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 forgotten	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 forgotten	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 forgotten	aux
17	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 thinking	ccomp
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 message	nmod:poss
19	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 forgotten	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 saw	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	parataxis
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 eagle	det
25	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obj
26	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 eagle	acl
27	above	above	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 flying	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	prince		the garden	shortly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location
2	think speech: other	gerund	prince not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	forget	must · perfect	the swallows	prince's message			tree rules
4	see	past	prince	a eagle			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus
5	fly	gerund	a eagle not said here			above prince	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above he=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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