The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 70

At this moment a huge Eagle flew into the room, holding in its talons a Golden Branch, upon which were growing what looked like clusters of cherries, only every cherry was a single glowing ruby.

Who acts: huge Eagle, cherry · What happens: fly, hold, grow, look, glow, be · To what, where: room, Golden Branch, talons, single glowing ruby

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huge Eagle, cherry), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Eagle	det
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Eagle	amod
6	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 flew	nsubj
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 holding	punct
12	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 flew	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 talons	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 talons	nmod:poss
15	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 holding	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Branch	det
17	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Branch	amod
18	Branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 holding	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 growing	punct
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 growing	obl
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 growing	aux
23	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 holding	conj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 looked	nsubj
25	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 growing	ccomp
26	like	like	ADP	_	27 clusters	case
27	clusters	cluster	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 looked	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 cherries	case
29	cherries	cherry	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 clusters	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ruby	punct
31	only	only	ADV	_	33 cherry	advmod
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 cherry	det
33	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ruby	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 ruby	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 ruby	det
36	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 ruby	amod
37	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 ruby	amod
38	ruby	ruby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	a huge Eagle			moment	into the room result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result
2	hold	gerund	a huge Eagle not said here	a Golden Branch	Eagle's talons			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent branch=Theme in talon=Location
3	grow	past · progressive	a huge Eagle not said here					tree rules
4	look	past					like clusters of cherries	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	glow	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	past	every cherry	a single glowing ruby				tree rules

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/70/