The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 85

Then the Eagle flew on much farther with the man, but at length it alighted on a stone for a while.

Who acts: Eagle · What happens: fly, alight · To what, where: feather, length

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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 flew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Eagle	det
3	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 farther	advmod
7	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 flew	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 man	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 farther	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 alighted	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 alighted	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 length	case
14	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 alighted	obl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 alighted	nsubj:pass
16	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 flew	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 stone	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stone	det
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 alighted	obl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 while	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 while	det
22	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 alighted	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the Eagle				then	far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	alight	participle · passive		feather		length	while	on a stone	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.

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