The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 64

But the eagle would have something to eat first, and then it wanted to wait until the next day, for it was so tired with the long journey that it was scarcely able to rise from the earth.

Who acts: eagle, name, it · What happens: have, eat, want, wait, be, rise · To what, where: something, earth

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, name, it), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 have	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 have	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 something	acl
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 eat	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wanted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wanted	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 wanted	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wanted	nsubj
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 wait	mark
16	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wanted	xcomp
17	until	until	ADP	_	20 day	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
19	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 day	amod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wait	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tired	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	26 tired	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tired	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tired	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 tired	advmod
26	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wait	advcl
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 journey	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 journey	det
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 journey	amod
30	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tired	obl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 able	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 able	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 able	cop
34	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	35 able	advmod
35	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tired	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 rise	mark
37	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 able	xcomp
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 earth	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 earth	det
40	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 rise	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	the eagle	something				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
2	eat	to-infinitive	the eagle not said here	something not said here			first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want	past	name			then		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	name not said here			day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	name				with the long journey; tired property	tree rules
6	is	past	it				able, scarcely property	tree rules
7	rise	to-infinitive			the earth			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from earth=Initial_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 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.

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