The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 1
Now, an eagle with a King’s heart in his breast is apt to be bold, and accordingly he instantly made up his mind to carry off the lovely damsel, feeling sure that having once seen her he could not live without her.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: be, make up, carry off, feel, see, not live · To what, where: mind, lovely damsel, her · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 apt | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 eagle | det |
| 4 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 apt | nsubj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 King | case |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eagle | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 breast | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 breast | nmod:poss |
| 12 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heart | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 apt | cop |
| 14 | apt | apt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bold | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bold | cop |
| 17 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 apt | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 20 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 23 made | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | nsubj |
| 22 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 23 made | advmod |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 apt | parataxis |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 made | compound:prt |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mind | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 carry | mark |
| 28 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 made | advcl |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 carry | compound:prt |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 damsel | det |
| 31 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 damsel | amod |
| 32 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 carry | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 feeling | punct |
| 34 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 carry | advcl |
| 35 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 feeling | xcomp |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 seen | mark |
| 37 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 seen | aux |
| 38 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 39 seen | advmod |
| 39 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 sure | ccomp |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 seen | obj |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 live | nsubj |
| 42 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 live | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 live | advmod |
| 44 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 seen | ccomp |
| 45 | without | without | ADP | _ | 46 her | case |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 live | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 apt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a eagle with a King's heart in eagle's breast | now | apt property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | a eagle with a King's heart in eagle's breast not said here | bold property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make up | past | eagle | eagle's mind | accordingly, instantly property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 4 | carry off | to-infinitive | eagle not said here | the lovely damsel | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damsel=Theme | ||||
| 5 | feel | gerund | eagle not said here | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | see | gerund · perfect | eagle not said here | her = she | once property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | not live | could | eagle | without her = she | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | mind | eagle | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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