The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 96

‘An eagle is playing with it just now, but he will be here with it in an instant;’ and a few minutes after there was a sound of wings, and an eagle came fluttering towards them with the veil in his beak.

Who acts: eagle, few minutes · What happens: play, be, come, flutter · To what, where: instant, sound

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, few minutes), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 playing	punct
2	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 playing	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 playing	aux
5	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 playing	obl
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 now	advmod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 playing	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 here	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 here	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 here	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 here	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 here	cop
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 playing	parataxis
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 here	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 instant	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 instant	det
20	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 here	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 playing	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 playing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sound	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 minutes	det
25	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 minutes	amod
26	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sound	nsubj
27	after	after	SCONJ	_	29 was	mark
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 was	expl
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sound	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 sound	det
31	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 playing	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 wings	case
33	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sound	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 came	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 came	cc
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 eagle	det
37	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	nsubj
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 playing	conj
39	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 came	xcomp
40	towards	towards	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 fluttering	obl
42	with	with	ADP	_	44 veil	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 veil	det
44	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fluttering	obl
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 beak	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 beak	nmod:poss
47	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 veil	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 playing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present · progressive	a eagle			now	with voice	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme
2	is	future	eagle		a instant		with voice; here property	tree rules
3	is a	past	a few minutes	a sound			of wings	tree rules
4	come	past	a eagle					tree rules
5	flutter	gerund	a eagle not said here				towards wings = wing; with the veil in eagle's beak	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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