The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 54

The poor bird was closely pursued by an eagle, which would soon have eaten it up, had not Charming quickly fitted an arrow to his bow and shot the eagle dead.

Who acts: eagle, Charming · What happens: pursue, eat up, have, fit, shoot · To what, where: poor bird, bird, arrow, bow, eagle

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, Charming), 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	3 bird	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pursued	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pursued	aux:pass
5	closely	closely	ADV	_	6 pursued	advmod
6	pursued	pursue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 eagle	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 eagle	det
9	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pursued	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eaten	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 eaten	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 eaten	aux
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 eaten	advmod
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 eaten	aux
15	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 eagle	acl:relcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 eaten	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 eaten	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pursued	conj
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 Charming	advmod
21	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 fitted	nsubj
22	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	23 fitted	advmod
23	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	ccomp
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 arrow	det
25	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fitted	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 bow	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 bow	nmod:poss
28	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fitted	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 shot	cc
30	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fitted	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 eagle	det
32	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shot	obj
33	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 shot	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pursued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pursue	past · passive	a eagle	the poor bird	closely property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	eat up	would · perfect	a eagle	bird	soon property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	have	past	a eagle not said here			tree rules
4	fit	past	Charming	a arrow	to eagle's bow goal; quickly property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent arrow=Patient to bow=Goal
5	shoot	past	Charming not said here	the eagle	dead property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme

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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